Summer Vacation

Yeah! Exams finally ended nicely today. This sem have been akin to riding a roller coaster, with frequent emo swings. Haiz, dun wanna mention about it, it's sad story. Just quietly wait for the results.

Nah, with a 2-month holiday, what should I do? Maybe I should ask, what I can do instead. Almost broke, I should seriously try to get a vacation job. Admin job? Waiter? Distribute flyers? Dunno. I should do sth meaningful, to earn extra $$$ & kill time at the same time. Dun wanna grow moulds at home & wasted this holiday.

Meanwhile, there are still some important things to be settled. Hope can get them done quickly & smoothly. Now I have all the time in the world to catch up on my sleep & continue my Bleach craze. Haiz, duo luo dao...

P.S. Walau, what a hot weather! Global warming is real. I wanna move to the poles!

A Cause for Celebration

One of the Shell Apprentice Teams, haha

(Phew, luckily we're not fired!)

Hurray! No more assignments, reports, projects, quizzes. Our weeks of hard work on Shell project crystallised into a 12-min presentation to a 6-judge panel (4 Shell staff, Prof Leslie & Prof Teo) on "How to make a refinery to be more green and yet remain more competitive?"
I must shout this loudly : Our team got the 3rd prize for this presentation!

When Dr Lim said "The winner of the 3rd prize is Group K". I was thinking "Who is Group K?" Then I heard me & my team members names, "Har, we won? Hontoni?" That moment, I wanna say, thank you Papa, thank you Mama, thank you everyone T_T

Again, it's my lucky number 3. Each of us got S$20 NTUC vouchers! Haha, of course for an NTUC regular like me, this came in handy. Then It so happens that we've got stuff on progressive crude distillation, membrane distillation, CO2 & NOx emissions reduction. Among the panel of jugdges, Prof Teo is a membrane expert (I didn't know lo!) & another Shell staff is a furnace expert! When they say it, I was thinking "Oh shit!". Actually I already felt uneasy yesterday night, since NOx is a rather neglected part in most of the research on refinery emissions reduction & yet we're trying to present it. Sure kena arrows la! During Q&A, the furnace expert really asked us questions & somehow I didn't managed to answer everything he wanted to know.

Btw, Lenard's team got 2nd prize for innovative ideas on algae-based technology, some of them developed at MIT (my dream uni), green freedom & also solutions based on short, medium & long term needs. As expected, the top prize went to the God's team (TK's friend), with self-constructed process flowchart for integration of 3 green processes.

But luckily, with good research done by other team members & excellent presentation by our presenters, CS and SZ, we made it through despite my lousy answer. I know you heard it thousands of times liao. But I must say "Thanks, Chiuseng. Thanks, Shu Zheng". Hahaha...

That great feeling is back. So motivated! Now, it's time to work hard for the exams. Everyone, ganbatte yo!