Week 1 @ work

星期一, JR and me had a day off before starting work, compared to other guys in GIP. Because he arrived later in the week, he didn't get to the place of cheap clothes before like us. Brought him to qipu 路, where they sell fake stuff and cheap clothes and it's a place that i bought a jacket and the zipper broke 2 days after. acks!! However, things there are cheap la.. so who cares, just buy wear and throw. Along the way to carrefour, we walked pass 世纪公园, it's a gigantic park and probably they nicest in spring.. must pay for entrance lor!












This is actually a day before monday, went to 人名广场 for a walk and fix JR's specs. He blame it on the cold weather that his frame broke, went to a place in nanjing lu to fix. It's amazing what they offer. To fix a pair of glasses you can either, use fire to weld, or laser to weld.

Fire cost 5 yuan, Laser cost 80 yuan.

JR took the latter, and it takes a week, hope it turns out good. :)







星期二, 1st day at work. we shared a cab together with some people staying in 万邦. The travel journey cost 32 元. Quite cheap!! Because the reporting time is 9.30 a.m., we didn't take the bus, however when we got there, we realise we were the last!! omg... cuz everyone took the free shuttle. 8 rmb in turn for 45 mins good sleep... mmmm!! shall take the shuttle next time!! Sucks to be late as well, cuz we got forms to fill and it took awhile, held back peoples time.. tsk tsk... Lunch time, we were treated by emerson's department bosses, they were very nice, brought us to a restaurant nearby, although i heard the HR lady monica telling the waiter 6 dishes to be served, there seem to be like 12+ dishes. Already, before we got in, there was already about 5 cold dishes on the table waiting for us. Becuz we are all new, it took awhile before everyone get started, and ready to eat. Paiseh ma, afterall in a foreign land. Good food just see, don't eat can liaos.
Tried something new and nice 玉米汁, corn drink, it's a drink, not soup, fyi!!
However this is not the best meal in my 3 days at work.





星期三, 12 pm, everyone gathered at the reception counter. Today is a treat by the evn bigger bosses, overall HR of emerson and other companies, like rosemount and marine solutions. The bosses are ang mohs and quite nice to talk to. However, sometimes, just imagine them in such a position, and thinking how much they earn, and the people they meet, you wouldn't wanna step on their toes.

Anyway, this meal is a whole new experience, Waitress waited for us at the lobby and invited us up to a 套房. Going in, the waiter helped us take out our coats and hang it nicely on a rack for us. There is even a toilet in the room!! Dishes were served in individual portions with like 12 dishes all together. There, I had 玉米汁 again, however this time, it tasted very different, it's thick and with fuller flavour compared to the restaurant on tuesday. Could be a placebo effect thou :P.

Evening, we order 外卖 with hx, wm, wl and tab. Quite cheap 8 元 for my mushroom beef rice. Tab got us some nice yummy cakes from cafe 85 and breakfast, which was very sweet. Got this very innovative picture took by JR. It's a wednesday, lazy to get out after a long day and I was sick!~~


Nothing much for today! However I saw ultra light snow showers this morning, and my first experience in the cookhouse. The food isn't too bad, best thing was it isn't as oily as what u get from outside, one can choose from many veges and meats they have. A couple selection of drinks and fruit which seems to be always 砂糖桔.. lol~~ Anyw, just after a week plus, i missed playing tennis. Seeing those people play on china tv makes me wanna get out to hit some balls and makes me think of back home. Thinking nick n ely is training up, when i get back, u can thrash e phat vinny. Miss u guys, please be well.
NICK
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VIC

Relocated!

Hi peeps,

I found a new home, and it's at
http://peanutpoo-reloaded.blogspot.com/

-Thanks,
Vin

R&D in process!

It's time where our sound systems reach another new height of SQ(Sound quality)... I remember back in year one, we talked about boomyness, and loud music with lots of midrange in the music that produce vocals. Therefore, unknowingly, we think it's good music. Having played the Burmester CD (Audiophile test disc) that time and now, yield completely different results. The sounds we are getting now is mind blowing!! The music can reach a level so real, he though I was talking to him! Yes! Vic! It's all his fault. Went to Koba(a place selling electronic parts) and saw some high grade capacitors for a relatively cheap price and decided to give it a try. FYI, capacitors are charged storage devices that can be music cross-overs(a electronic component that determine which frequency range to drive individual speakers), differen capacitors produced different sound signatures and will give different amount of sound detailed when used.

The 2 types midbass electrolytic caps I got, Elna Silmics and Rubycon. The Silmics has been highly rated due to it's fine construction and muscality. You can do a search on google on silmics and they will thrash you loads of info about this fine capacitor.

Lousy electrolytic capacitors that was originally installed

Elna Silmics on board!

Next part, will be the myths on bypassing capacitors. It was said online and by many people. If a capacitor is bypassed by another of a smaller value, it's able to extend higher treble to recreate an instrument sound better. Intially, I bypass the Silmics with Cheap wima 0.01uFs from koba. and the tweeter capacitor, Solens, with wimas 0.001uF.

Cute transparent Wimas bypassing the Solens

Wimas 1nF capacitor! Cute rite!

The day after, Vic went to get Mundorf supreme capacitors, they are huge grenades and is suppose to replaces the black solens u see above. Best of all, they cost 40 dollars each! In a stereo sound system, thats 80 dollars for just capacitors. He has his doubts. I have mine, it's just amazing this famous and highly recommmended capacitor can really make a difference in ANY sound system. Here is how they look like.

Look the yellow capacitors on the left, the flat pack one is a size of a man's thumb. Can you imagine how big are these babies?

Now, compare it's shear size of it with the other of the components.

And of course! it sounded better than my crossover set I have. We tried playing cai qing, the cricket track. It sounded less rounded and full body on my set compared to his. With his, I can hear the low rough ruffles of her deep voice and shes like singing live infront of you. I am pretty impressed with it but do not have funds to purchase it yet.

:( Mundorf rocks!

However, the modification process doesn't stop here! Vic went to buy some vishays 0.01uF tolerance of 1% capacitor for both of us. I removed the wima bypass and filled in with this, and he bypassed his mundorf. Bother of our cross overs are burning in now. With hours of listening to it, we are quite happy with the results! It's a big difference the sound system now compared to 2 years ago! How NOOBS we are =P

ANyway! some interesting pictures to show "off". I made crepes, it's very nice and sweet! My mum made the batter, but i made it! It's much tastier than a pancake and goes with with tea! Very nice for an afternoon snack...

Also, I got pretty donuts from donut factory suntec, just 30 mins of queueing. Damn fast. Those people who has more timee and are sooo free, queue @ raffles please!

One nice place I went today is Muchy donuts @ katong. It taste different all together. I cannot say which is nicer. But i like the oreo flavour of muchy donut!!! :)

Also, went to fei fei won ton me, the new outlet and found bad english. Can you spot it? =P

heh!!

What's recommanded?

:P

Schools reopening. I like! Missing all those studying period! Call me sick but i hate doing nothing!

For now take care peeps! Enjoy the hols!

VincE

Extra Curricular Activities

Has been rather lazy to log on blogger and write something. Well, just 2 sundays ago, WJ, JR and I went of a trip up to the casinos. A place where grandma love to hangout. SOmetimes u can see grand dad placing their life earnings in that place of hopes and dreams. To kids, that place is just a theme park, to us adults, it's more than that~... Poor people play TAI SAI OR ROULETTE, however the rich people will be able to play card games like carribean stud, etc...

Temperature constantly at 20 deg celscius, it's just like constant air condition, with occasional sputter and gust of wind to provide the extra wind chill shoikness. I love the cold and I have been sleeping in the aircon room since 4 years old. I NEED IT! 113 sgd for full package with buffet breakfast. it's so cheap I feel like going back every weekend, not for the casino, but the weather =)

We went on an off peak package, constituting sunday monday and a tuesday. Having reach that on a sunday afternoon on a super duper slow coach, about 6-7 hrs of journey, we decided to take it slow and go for the theme park the next day.

Monday morning, themepark day. The breakfast isn't all that impressive, what i like best is only the laksa chilli, which gives me spicy tingling sensation with spike of aroma bursting out of the ikan billis... BaGUS!

the day was so cloudy we didn't actually do the out door theme park. Worse still, many of the nice rides were down. Therefore we bought a 21 rm indoor theme park ticket and played our asses off at the bumper cars. In total we queued for the bumper cars 6 times, 3 mins / play and it was great fun! We had our enemies, little uncourteous rascals in the queue we identified, and we bump them~...

Moments before our 1st ride @ the bumper cars, we took the indoor "roller coaster". A minutes ride took us about 15 mins to queue. JR and I wanted to take front seat and we waited for the next coaster to come. Just when we were about to board the coaster, this middle eastern toddler ran from the rear of the queue line and jump into the front seat. Only then we felt owned by the kid. We can't possibly tell the kid to move to the rear. Blame it on our complacency. :(

That most of the excitement in Genting.

Today, Vic was free! so nice of him to offer his help to install another amp in the car. I was in dire need of a dedicated amp for the sub woofer. Although I had the amp with me for almost 6 months, I don't know how to remove those hindering car seats. Vic, with his professional experience with zhnging car and this big collection of proper tools made everything easy. I was just amazed on how car seats can be taken out so easily!!

Especially the rear seat, no screws, just brute force, pulling the entire seat from the clips.

We even found 1dollar ten cents in the rear seat. I am sure thats from one of my passenger. Thanks for the TIPS =)

The amp i threw in is a 300 watter, My diamond D6 sub is able to tahan 600Watts.

The last time, running from just a single amp. I threw in only 182 Watts, that barely 1/3 of the rated power of the sub.

Even now it's just 1/2 of it!

With this relieve off my old amplifier, the fronts are getting 3X more juice and the rear 2X more juice. And the music is turning more lively now!

With a little more tuning, I am sure ill like the sound so much ill just live in the car next time.

Feel free to approach me for auditions! I AM SO HAPPY WITH THE SOUND NOW!

Anyway, installing the amp 1/2 day of work for 2 people.

Here are some pictures from the Genting trip and today!

Once again thanks vic for helping me!! You are so nice =)

300 Watter lying @ home

Talking to terry yesterday, he told me to take out my old DSLR camera to snap.

Pictures today are of fascinating quality, it's from my old canon 300D, trying out nice snaps.

Now my ICE setup,

1X Alpine 9855

1X REVO DAB

1X ADS 236 IM components BI-WIRE (Modified Solen capacitors passive crossovers)

1X stock Toyota speakers made by fujitsu ten

1X Diamond D6 Amp 2 ohms series DVC (4 ohmage configuration)

1X Diamond 3400.4 Amp running on 2 channel (182 watts/ channel @ 13.8 V)

1X Schneider Amp running on 1 channel (300 watts)

Planning to buy a new 600 wattage amp for the sub, and improving the components speakers.

Brands in mind

- DB Drive

- Focal

- Danish Acoustics

- Hope to try Home audio quality paper cone speakers (Scanspeak, Focal)

Now i need is just some nice CD's and songs!

Enjoy the music peeps =)

EID over ler

finally 5 weeks of commuting to school is over!
It's the start of my holidays and i never pretty much relax even before the exam period..
stupid 2011 project which everyone thinks it doesn't deserve any effort(becuz the professors ANYHOW mark our papers, reports and projects) and gave many deserving students a bad grade.
For many, you probably check ya exams grade. I have not! But i shall do it tomorrow. Together with dearest. It's either happy day or a sad day after, so i guess it's better for us to check our grades at the end of the day. =P

It has been an intensive 4 months (March, April, May, June), Projects after exams after projects. Feel a lil useless, that nothing has been achieved. It's a little sad that we are in this guinea pig course and a grades are given so unprofessionally with underrated AUs. And I so hate it!!!

19th June, Prof Dan is coming back to SG dropping by @ brewerks for a booze... I guess many of us fellas will be dropping by to say a big bye and thank you for the guidance he has given us before he leaves for america and never to be seen again? = =~~~

24-26th June, Genting trip w/ WJ and JR... cool dudes going up the land of chills and money. Like oceans 13, we are gonna try out luck in a small way! BECAREFUL! *dream*

Haha~
More frequent updates now when i am free!
Be happy in everything you do~ cuz i realise as ppl gets older, they gets unfriendlier and unhappy.
I don't know why but it's just human nature...
So, as much as possible try to be helpful and friendly with a open mind, never never let other influence who u r = at least i hope some people to changee =_= you don't know who u are, until it's too late.

To everyone that reads, have a great great wonderful week ahead! Tomorrow tues is gelares day =)
buaiSS Vin~~

SICK!

Sunday! City duathlon...
I was my worse race ever.. The nite before, I had already felt the radiation creeping into me. But I didn't wanna disappoint my friend and participated in the race instead..
Running was pretty ok... Without a 10KM trial for 6 months? I could do it in 55 mins... Although thats slow compared to many others who HAD beed training. But I think it's pretty amazing for me to do so. Just by relying on my past cardiovascular buildup =). After that 10KM run, I totally lost it... The bike leg was excruciating, unable to do at least a 30km/h now. I reminisce those times I could easily cruise @ 35km/h. These legs of mine are old and untrained.. oh well!
And guess what... the last 5KM, I WALKED!! Never walked in such a race before, I could not believe it myself too.. Just that my mental threshold was breached and I can't do anything about it!
But well well, I finished it in the end.. doing a 3hr and 40+ mins... Not to bad for a busy guy who had not train in 6 months =)

My fren psychoed me to relay the triathlon with him, well, without thought, i said yes! Now i will have to train for that race coming!.. argh!!

Anyway.. Thing about this race is that, I WAS sick and i didn't listen to signs my body tried to tell me! The next day!
WHAM!! woke up 4am in the morning feeling hot sweaty and in pain!! It's more like I got struck by a hot iron in the face.

Monday, 1st time i saw a doc in awhile... She was nice, gave me all her strongest medicine and 2 days of rest. The process was terrible anyway, I never wanna get sick again! =

Didn't go to school for project work for 2 days, feeling real bad about it. especially for those who put effort in making the prototype!! Ill contribute as much as possible tomorrow! =)

no details, XXOR lrig ym ttub =)

To everyone happy holidays!!
vince~

Day 5

www.gstoffset.gov.sg <-- check it out guys! if u are 21 and above, get your deserved reward from the government!! Anyway, vince is damn broke now... thinking of ways to get money or rather~~ save them!.. Anyone care to donate to the vin fund? you will have live time supply of blog crap and ill be ur best fren (if u provide continual funding)... HEE!

WJ told me that one can book the Singapore flyer through the web for the next yea already! oh man!~~ Well, I just checked the web site and their earliest ferris date is 1st march!
So whoever wanna to be first to sit on that Singapore pride! go get ur tickets!!
http://www.singaporeflyer.com.sg/products_leisure.php

Nothing much today! 2 quizes and went shopping for EID project parts... Ate the famous sungei road lor me, but it turn out to be a lil sub standard. I think because it's the evening and the ingredients are no longer fresh!!

Weird enough, days feels like weeks!!
Hours feels like days... Shes staying 1 more day in the 日本国...
That makes it roughly about 1 week later... =

Anyway, i miss playing tennis and frequent cycling... I am really gonna have more of it once all this EID crap is over!!
Jia you peeps!
:)