20 October 2008

Latest update on the F1 grand prix in Shanghai, China.

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Lewis Hamilton won, followed by Massa! Shirin/ Xinlin is so excited over Hamilton's win, and she thinks his brother looks so much like him. HAHA.

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My uncle working in Shanghai has tickets from his company (free, I think) and was there yesterday to view the race! He could have taken like 3 tickets more but no one was there to watch the race with him in China. Haha. I watched it live with Shirin/ Xinlin yesterday and she claims to have seen my uncle on TV (sitting at the grandstand), but of course you can't see him. =.=

Oh, last Monday 12 October 2008.

20 of us went to HCI for some ICT forum where we had a discussion with pupils from HCI and JSS.

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I have no pictures to upload, so this will do. :D

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Interesting facts

I watched a documentary on Discovery channel today about the construction of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. It took like 10 years of planning and building because of considerations like strong sea currents and winds. The bridge has opened recently this year in May and it is the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, standing at around 36km long. It links from Shanghai to Ningbo, shortening the distance by about 120km. Whoa, isn't that amazing or what!
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou_Bay_Bridge

Another programme on National Geographic channel was about the moving of a 3000 year ancient Egyptian temple- the Abul Simbel temple. They had to move the temple as the River Nile would flood and cause this ancient temple to disappear forever. Achitects across the world came up with several ideas, like building a dome around the temple and tourists can take an underwater elevator to visit the temple, but this idea was rejected. In the end, they had to cut the temple up into about 1050 blocks and shift it to another site to assemble it. I think it took about 9 months in 1964 to cut and shift the blocks, but more time to assemble the blocks. Fortunately, the Abul Simbel temple stands safe now.
For more info and pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_simbel

These are so interesting! :D Hope you find it cool too!

9 October 2008

The Final Year Exams are over.
I think I'll do horribly. Stuck between the choice to be happy and worried for the results.
所谓“失败是成功之母”, if I fail this time (OH NO), I'll learn from the mistakes...
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After our last paper (Physics) yesterday, some of us went for a briefing. We'll be going to HCI on Monday(?!) Though being exhausted after the exam, our class had to stay back to do the vein scan thing. We have to scan our veins every morning from Monday to take attendance- Everyone expects a long queue, but it should be okay as I arrive quite early every morning.
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Shirin is in school taking her very last paper today, so good luck to her(although it's quite late).
Starhub cable TV is changing some channels to digital format, including CH54! My parents are going to change the whole TV set really soon, if not I wouldn't be able to watch CH54's 食尚玩家. HAHA. :D

CAN YOU GUESS WHERE THIS IS?

(Xinlin, please don't answer uh.)