哪里有彩虹告诉我
能不能把我的愿望还给我
为什么天这么安静
所有云都跑到我这里
有没有口罩一个给我
释怀说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药
看不见你的笑我怎么睡得着
你的身影这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳还是会绕
没有理由我也能自己走
你要离开我知道很简单
你说依赖是我们的阻碍
就算放开那能不能别没收我的爱
当作我最后才明白
有没有口罩一个给我
释怀说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药
看不见你的笑我怎么睡得着
你的身影这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳还是会绕
没有理由我也能自己走
你要离开我知道很简单
你说依赖是我们的阻碍
就算放开那能不能别没收我的爱
当作我最后才明白
看不见你的笑
要我怎么睡得着
你的身影这么近我却抱不到
没有地球太阳开始环绕环绕
没有理由我也能自己走掉
是我说了太多就成真不了
也许时间是一种解药解药
也是我现在正服下的毒药
你要离开我知道很简单
你说依赖是我们的阻碍
就算放开那能不能别没收我的爱
当作我最后才明白
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Interesting article
This is an interesting article I just read in today's The New Paper.
THE COMING-OF-AGE TEXTBOOK
Your life is over. Now, just live. That's what lawyer Adrian Tan, who wrote the popular '80s novel The Teenage Textbook, told students at a convocation at NTU recently. Here are some excerpts:
August 28, 2008
YOU may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy.
We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino.
It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There's very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup.
Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap. That's why our life expectancies are so long.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom...
I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy. After all, it's calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don't need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life's a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it...
Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today...
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
DO NOT WORK
THE most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable. Work kills.
The Japanese have a term 'karoshi', which means death from overwork. That's the most dramatic form of how work can kill.
But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there's nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. Or people who are employed to do something morally distasteful, or even plain criminal.
Such people justify their actions by telling you they are 'making a living'. No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful...
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself...
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. Wake up and know exactly what you want to do and why you want to do it.
If you don't, you are working.
BE WARY OF THE TRUTH
MOST of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth.
I'm not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things.
The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth.
Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
BE HATED
IT'S not as easy as it sounds.
Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many.
That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions.
It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.
There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
FALL IN LOVE
THE other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn't say 'be loved'. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one's looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false.
Modern society is anti-love. We've taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings.
It is far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work - the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way...
Despite popular culture, love doesn't happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming...
You will find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
THE COMING-OF-AGE TEXTBOOK
Your life is over. Now, just live. That's what lawyer Adrian Tan, who wrote the popular '80s novel The Teenage Textbook, told students at a convocation at NTU recently. Here are some excerpts:
August 28, 2008
YOU may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy.
We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino.
It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There's very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup.
Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap. That's why our life expectancies are so long.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom...
I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy. After all, it's calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don't need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life's a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it...
Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today...
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
DO NOT WORK
THE most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable. Work kills.
The Japanese have a term 'karoshi', which means death from overwork. That's the most dramatic form of how work can kill.
But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there's nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. Or people who are employed to do something morally distasteful, or even plain criminal.
Such people justify their actions by telling you they are 'making a living'. No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful...
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself...
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. Wake up and know exactly what you want to do and why you want to do it.
If you don't, you are working.
BE WARY OF THE TRUTH
MOST of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth.
I'm not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things.
The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth.
Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
BE HATED
IT'S not as easy as it sounds.
Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many.
That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions.
It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.
There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
FALL IN LOVE
THE other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn't say 'be loved'. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one's looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false.
Modern society is anti-love. We've taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings.
It is far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work - the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way...
Despite popular culture, love doesn't happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming...
You will find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Work work work... wet wet wet...
It has been a pretty slow week. Nothing much on hand, no work piling sky high. After a meeting on Monday with a particular customer, I spent that afternoon along with yesterday & today's morning in only 1 site.
It was only a case of system unable to pump down. After the tele-conversation with the customer, I deduced that the fault either lies with the turbomolecular pump or the turbopump controller. As of Monday afternoon, only the turbomolecular pump was available in our store. No controller. ZERO stock in our GLOBAL warehouse.
Upon dismantling down the turbomolecular pump, I found that the blades spin smoothly. Meaning the problem doesn't lie with this part. I checked the output supply from the turbopump controller & found that there was only a 5v reference voltage. 45v was missing. How unfortunate for me but vice versa for my customer. The turbomolecular pump costs approximately USD$13K whereas the controller is only a paltry USD$5K+ or so.
Although they manage to save on the parts but we had no stock on hand! I managed to locate a "used" controller from 1 of my colleagues & assured my customer that I will run up their system with the old controller first & replace it ASAP upon receival of the new set. But that will have to wait till Tuesday as it was already close to 5pm & my colleague was in the west while I was in the north-east. Even though we were only about 30km apart but peak hour traffic is a killer. It will take me at least 3 hours to go to & fro.
Tuesday morning was a surprise as a new controller ordered by another colleague just happen to come in. I made the call to him & hi-jack it with his permission as his wasn't an urgent case. After replacing the turbopump controller, the system pump down accordingly & upon hitting the vacuum threshold, the Ion Getter Pump kicked in. But the gun vacuum was too weak & thus an overnight bake-out had to be performed. I assured my customer that by Wednesday lunch time her system will be up & running without a glitch.
This morning the gun vacuum was a beautiful 1e-010mbar & I ran up the gun to paper specifications. After checking the extraction ratio & probe current reading, some minor adjustments were made to the filament current & extractor voltage. Gun & aperture alignments were done after allowing the beam to settle down 30mins later.
After handing over the system back to my customer, it started pouring elephants & hippopotamus. Damn it! The sky don't look like it will stop any time in the near future so I braved through the downpour back home on my trustworthy bike.
Even though the rain was pretty heavy but I still think that heaven is kind to me. Visibility & road conditions were still good enough for me to reach home safely. The only major upset is that I am drenched from head to toe. Even my underwear is not spared...
It was only a case of system unable to pump down. After the tele-conversation with the customer, I deduced that the fault either lies with the turbomolecular pump or the turbopump controller. As of Monday afternoon, only the turbomolecular pump was available in our store. No controller. ZERO stock in our GLOBAL warehouse.
Upon dismantling down the turbomolecular pump, I found that the blades spin smoothly. Meaning the problem doesn't lie with this part. I checked the output supply from the turbopump controller & found that there was only a 5v reference voltage. 45v was missing. How unfortunate for me but vice versa for my customer. The turbomolecular pump costs approximately USD$13K whereas the controller is only a paltry USD$5K+ or so.
Although they manage to save on the parts but we had no stock on hand! I managed to locate a "used" controller from 1 of my colleagues & assured my customer that I will run up their system with the old controller first & replace it ASAP upon receival of the new set. But that will have to wait till Tuesday as it was already close to 5pm & my colleague was in the west while I was in the north-east. Even though we were only about 30km apart but peak hour traffic is a killer. It will take me at least 3 hours to go to & fro.
Tuesday morning was a surprise as a new controller ordered by another colleague just happen to come in. I made the call to him & hi-jack it with his permission as his wasn't an urgent case. After replacing the turbopump controller, the system pump down accordingly & upon hitting the vacuum threshold, the Ion Getter Pump kicked in. But the gun vacuum was too weak & thus an overnight bake-out had to be performed. I assured my customer that by Wednesday lunch time her system will be up & running without a glitch.
This morning the gun vacuum was a beautiful 1e-010mbar & I ran up the gun to paper specifications. After checking the extraction ratio & probe current reading, some minor adjustments were made to the filament current & extractor voltage. Gun & aperture alignments were done after allowing the beam to settle down 30mins later.
After handing over the system back to my customer, it started pouring elephants & hippopotamus. Damn it! The sky don't look like it will stop any time in the near future so I braved through the downpour back home on my trustworthy bike.
Even though the rain was pretty heavy but I still think that heaven is kind to me. Visibility & road conditions were still good enough for me to reach home safely. The only major upset is that I am drenched from head to toe. Even my underwear is not spared...
Monday, August 25, 2008
Moral obligation
There are things that I do & things that I do not when I am in a relationship. Keeping in touch with friends do not consider as immoral or a breach of trust. Think about someone I used to like but whom rejected me. There doesn't seem to be a problem staying in contact with her though. So where do we stop?
It is an extremely grey area with the line drawn only by our individual mindset & subjected to how far we let our imagination run wild on this.
It is an extremely grey area with the line drawn only by our individual mindset & subjected to how far we let our imagination run wild on this.
Friday, August 15, 2008
The purpose of a cellular phone
Nowadays cell phones comes with millions of functions. Some we use, some we don't use. Some of the functions we know, some we don't even know it exists!
But seriously, what is the purpose of possessing one? Let me tell you all, it is to keep in a pouch (to prevent it from scratches), keep it in your handbag & to place the handbag so far away that when it rings you can't hear it!
But seriously, what is the purpose of possessing one? Let me tell you all, it is to keep in a pouch (to prevent it from scratches), keep it in your handbag & to place the handbag so far away that when it rings you can't hear it!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Pain many many!!!
OoOoOoohh... I tell you, today I underwent some real pain. The magnum needle on the collarbone really hurts. But no, I'm not complaining! Because as always, no pain no gain!
It got my better half thinking about her second project too & during the journey home, she has a very clear idea what she's gona put next. Bravo!
It got my better half thinking about her second project too & during the journey home, she has a very clear idea what she's gona put next. Bravo!
Round 2
I'm going for my 2nd round of impulse today. Hmm... this appointment has actually been booked 2 weeks ago, is it still considered an impulse?
Anyway, I've been waiting for this since my 1st impulse. I guess there will be at least another 5 more rounds of impulse excluding today's.
Anyway, I've been waiting for this since my 1st impulse. I guess there will be at least another 5 more rounds of impulse excluding today's.
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