Archive for November, 2006

Smoked sausage… shaken, not stirred

Friday, November 24th, 2006

I guess it was only due that i spent more time doing the things that i’ve neglected while i was on campus…ie. blogging.

So.. what will be on the menu today? sausages or salamis?

A trip down to gurney last night for 007 was great. My take on this bond? not so much the tech- assisted, suave womanizer of the past ( or rather the future ).

The car - The Aston Martin was the car of choice for Casino Royale… and it was just that….a car… nothing special.. no rocket launchers.. no NOS…no neon glow…. just a defilibrator… and 1 with a faulty connection at that.

The watch - Omega.. wahlau..he didn’t even pose with his watch. WHY?  ‘cos the watch just did wad a watch is supposed to do. Tell the time.. ( not that he even checked the time ) no metal cutting laser… no gps… no walkie talkie… j u s t   a   n o r m a l    w a t c h  !

As being part of my movie tradition, once again me and boonz had the chance to play the all time favourite, fastest growing movie related game… " SPOT THE Sony Ericsson PHONE ep 2 "

This movie is just 1 huge advert for SE phones..not only Bond was spotting a k800, but even matthias was holding a k700, and lets not forget ,even the bomb carrying dude was receiving his orders via the classic Ericsson T30…( vesper- w950, the 2nd person Bond killed- m600 )

Just the sight of Vesper whipping out the steady-shot,best pic,5 MP, T10 was a hint of overkill from the advertising department.

It’s very heart warming to see Bond get a whipping and still able to tell the baddie to scratch a little bit to the right :P

All in all it we get to know why Bond never falls in love in subsequent stories and that we could learn a lesson from this movie : Never trust a woman who has a funky name like vesper! ( especially if she was still wearing the algerian love note ) jeng jeng jeng!

yan,signing off

The fields of work

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Ah AIGP, the annual intensive geriatrics practical. Fun for the whole family as we get down to the field and mingle with the folks of Taman Pekaka.

I’ve been in the jungle for almost a week after my exams now spending a significant portion out in the field where most of us ended up looking like Victoria Station’s crab DE jour.

In a way it was ironic because we couldn’t get our work done if it was raining and we would be baked if it was too hot. An ideal situation of which it was just cloudy almost never happens unless it was a precursor to the coming of the rain.

And the worst thing is this… i needed the sun to be bright and hot because i had left my clothes out to dry and was kinda running out of clothes.

It was fun actually ( no. I’m not sarcastic ) getting to see and experience 1st hand what it is like out on the field doing surveying. ( this BTW is 1 of the objectives lah)

There was just so much to do from detailing,leveling,traversing and tachometry ( this line suspiciously sounds like it was taken from my report )

The one thing for sure is that I’ll never look at the features of an area in the same way again.

ciaoz.. my report is awaiting

-yan,signing off-

its raining…

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Ah… back to the blogging board after an extended absence due to the usual end of sem activities ie. exams.

Just came out of the hall,took a 2 lefts and a right and im in the computer lab.Its running on 64bit.. im suprised.. or was it that long since i touched a computer?

My exams are over but it still isn’t holiday time yet due to the geomatic camp that is on for the next 1 week. Of all the places, they actually decided to have it in Pekaka.. no .. not Pekaka on the island but the pekaka in the jungle. Kononnya to save cost wor….

This sem by far is the most hectic and the fastest to pass by.. no time to reflect on the past sem also.

Now just waiting for the rain to stop so i can go back and watch some movies..ciaoz

yan,signing off