Today is the 15th day of Chinese New Year, and many people went to temples.I was at the bus stop and saw this bus 130 filled to the brink. This service passes by Bright Hill (where Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery is located) , and the bus stop I was at is only the second stop from the interchange!Some people wanted to board the bus but it was already filled to the …

There are a lot of schools of thoughts with regards to work experience. Big company or small?Some say, go for big companies, so that your curriculum vitae looks nice. But some say, in big companies, they make you do very specific job. For example, an architecture friend of mine said if you join those big firms, you may be designing toilet for the rest of your life.Others say, …

Step UpStep Up 2I'm talking about step up transformer lah, duh.You have the primary coil, secondary coil, iron core, and all the voltage and current and magnetic flux linkage...

My biggest reward from the career fair was from Sweden: the Arla UHT milk in Tetra Classic package!This small tetrahedral contains 25ml of milk, and thanks to the special technology from Tetra Pak, this little package can keep its contents at room temperature for months! I brought it home in my bulky backpack and it survived the journey. Had it leaked, I would have left …

If you check out the 3rd page of Today's TODAY newspaper, there's this OSIM advertisement of its iPen massage pen.So the engineers at my workplace were very interested in the product, discussing on its actuator and battery and stuff. Some even suggested buying one and dismantling it to see its parts.Then one engineer said, "There must be a reason why they put a girl in their …

Attended the Together in Design: Industry and ME Seminar and Appreciation Tea this afternoon. Surprisingly no attendance was marked for this "compulsory" function.The guest speaker was Dr Milton Tan, executive director of DesignSingapore Council. If you are not a hardcore designer / design engineering type, you would most likely find the presentation dry. In fact, I …

Wanna sit on these massage chairs?These are scaled down models of OSIM's massage chair, designed by PSB Technologies' Product Design and Engineering Centre (PDE)You will be surprised how many big brands have their products designed by PSB.

Recently there was this case of incest in Austria, in which a 73-year-old electrical engineer have 7 children with his daughter. (pls don't pay attention to the "electrical engineer" part)I find the relationships confusing, let me illustrate them with some equations:father = husbandfather = mother's father = grandfathermother = father's daughter = siblinggrandmother …

Happy Neighbour Labour Day!(I thought labour is the giving birth thingie?push push! work harder!)

Usually we see fridge in convenient stores for chilling drinks, and I was pleasantly surprised to find this heater in a store.People who like hot milo or hot coffee, you can have it canned now.Heater is manufactured by Nippon Heater Kiki.(now I have a problem, should I post this in my main blog or photo blog?)