The 8th China Synergy Programme for Outstanding Youth

Omg! I got it! Woohoo~~~~

As promised I am blogging about it... hehe... Actually I have been worrying about it for some time because the login page on the website is "open" now, but it requires a username and password. Obviously only those selected can get in right? They said those selected would be informed by end of March, and as today is the 30th I was really getting anxious so I sent an email to them.

So anyway I was checking my email just about an hour ago and I got it! Wow! I am sooooo thrilled. Coz now I'm acknowledged as an "Outstanding Youth" (杰青). LOL!

Anyway, I'll be leaving for China end of June then... will try my best to update my blog about the trip and also hope I can bring some souvenirs back for my family and friends : )

Oh? You don't know what I'm rattling about? Go here: http://www.chinasynergy.org.hk
The 8th China Synergy Programme for Outstanding Youth. 第八届海外杰青汇中华。If you guys missed it, try applying for next year yar (unfortunately, limited only to people of Chinese descendent)!

Busy busy busy

It's that time of the year again...

Nearing exams, so not gonna blog much. Except if I manage to get my place in the 8th China Synergy Programme, manage to get my exchange to Technische Universitaet Muenchen settled, if I decide to go for another mountain trekking trip or if I decide to go for the AIESEC event in Taiwan.

All the best for people preparing for exams...

Choir concerts

Recently I attended the NUS choir concert and NTU choir concert (actually just came back a few hours ago from the NTU one).

What I liked about the NTU one was that it had all the creative music thingy stuff going on. It was harder for NUS to do that because they chose the musica sacra (sacred music) theme. Both choirs had guest choir performances... NUS had a primary school choir as guest choir! They were so cuuuuuuuuuute! Hahaha...

NTU had 2 guest choirs... CHIJ St. Nicholas choir had this 'shrieky' song... there were some really really high pitches there @.@ kinda painful to the ears though. Their other song, "sakura" was much more pleasant. There were some parts in the song where there were people speaking Japanese in the background; Tang Ning called them the "rappers"... Haha...

What NUS had that NTU didn't was professionalism... theirs were more proper and dainty, with nice costumes to boot. But NTU definitely won in the choreography part... It was exciting with the band players, costumes, gliter, bling-bling and all. The second half of the NTU concert really made many of us ex-choir people want to join choir again. Wen Loong was high when the concert ended... guess he had a Coke too many.

All in all, music is still something I enjoy to listen and critique. SYC ensemble singer's concert next? (rather expensive though, at S$20)

2nd trip to SAESL

As with other aerospace students, I am attached to an "industrial mentor". My mentor is a manager at SAESL (Singapore Aero Engines Services Limited). Basically what they do there is maintain and repair Rolls-Royce Trent Engines that are used on many aircraft. They do engine MRO for many aircraft in the region.

There are 5 aero student attached under my mentor, but one girl didn't come. In her place was Jing Ru who decided to come along (after being given permission). Oh, many thanks to Qiao Mei who fetched us there... again... =P

We spent much longer here this time, mostly in his office but also looking at some of the engines, fan and turbine blades. Talked about a lot of things concerning the Trent engines, in particular Trent-800, as well as our Aerospace Materials assignment. I was kinda surprised I understood so much more this time (as compared to the previous visit last sem). Apparently most of the theory and lab work were all relevant! Like static and dynamic stability etc... But there are still many things that I've gotta learn.

Decided to bring a notepad along this time because there are sure a lot of things to learn such as industrial practices and choice of materials etc. which our mentor kindly informed us about. Really thankful. There is a chance that we'll be doing some "vacation work" here during the 3 months holiday. That's cool... However, I dunno how will I cope with travelling from Boon Lay to Changi (quite near Changi prison) and back everyday. Maybe I'll bunk over at Jeffrey's place in Tampines? Haha...

OK, got lots of projects to settle so gotta go... Ciao!