youth lg outing

on saturday afternoon for the life group outings, we decided to go bowling with brian siew's group at cineleisure. So we met up in church, had worship and got ready to leave.. some random pics from jamie's camera


when we got there, brian's group was still missing in action (we later found out they were taking photos with the "weird creatures" downstairs).. so ian yun.. managed to figure out, how to get the balls out of the foosball machine.. i tell you he's a genius!! and we had a few rounds.. some were embarrased (own goals) and some emerged triumphant.. heh.. sadly i don't have any photos of the cineleisure leg of our outing (jamie left the camera in the car *slaps her*
and have'nt got brian's photos yet)

All of it (the bowling) was fun, except for the fact that i was fighting with jamie for the bottom score on the leaderboard. *tsk tsk* oh gosh.. they were like, "karl, you know you can try holding the ball between your legs and just let it go from there, it MIGHt just go straight that way". had fun till like around 6 and then we left for dinner at SS2murni. my first time there. on the way, jamie caught a photo of me SMSing while driving.. apparently i had a very EMO look. i wonder why.. heh.. . hence this...

the place we had dinner at..


wei chin grinning..


they asked yih khai to pose.. and he came up with this.. looked as though he'd got a bowl of cream he was about to fling at the camera.. sheeshh..


yong zhi wen and ian..


dunno what they were trying to prove.. esp darren, " oh w


here's a shot of darren holding the RECEIPT he collected for loosing his parking ticket (that for stealing my place dude!!!hahaha) i tell you, i have no idea how he lost it.. we were paying the ticket together and next moment when we got into my car he called, eh... karl.. just now you
took my parking ticket ah?? i had to refrain.... :P life group leader!! hehehehe...


and this was the inscription on it..

julia and alvin

chew, myself, jamie and ben ong (ee laine, you're SO right about chew man.. the dude can't smile for nuts... :P)


ben ong and julia

another one of yih khai's random poses


after dinner walked to the CD shop nearby to find a movie to watch..



and following that left for julia's place.. at which point darren decided he was in the mood for some hyundai sonata.. scary ride it was, having someone else drive your MUm's car.. (my myvi was stuck at home due to a power cut.. couldn't open the gate). here's a photo of them posing outside the house with Alvin's car coming right up the road about to mow them down.. but did they care?? ..... ...

watched football (darren's completely undigestable excuse was that we should "wait for wei chin before we started the movie" yeah right.. more like he wanted to watch man u draw at everton!!! woohoo!!!) i left after that cos i had lotsa stuff to do at home..

it was an awesome day.. and i had fun with u guys.. love my life group!!!

oh and to all you peeps celebrating the festival of lights today.. HAPPY DEEPAVALI AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH YOUR FAMILIES!!

LINZ

these few days have been quite a challenge. Getting to grips with the fact that my exams are three days away. I take my hat off to emmy, who has been at work since last MONDAY! during which time i was still at work on completing my final assignment, she was well into the exam studying phase. So now you have an idea of how FAR off track i am! it's so scary k emmy! studying in church.. with her big "ROAD MAP TO LIFE".. she probably really enjoyed all the questions asked.. heh.. ( and now i'll be lucky to keep my head on my shoulders :P)

SO.... had to salvage every moment these past two days...

was Studying very hard indeed this morning, electromechanics. Oh goSH! what in the world! servo motors, actuators, system modelling, transfer functions, and all that crap.. my brain was about to dissolve into nothingness when i decided it was time for some mozart...

and I JUST HAVE TO BLOG THIS..

it was such an awesome feeling. like i had been sitting in a sauna with a cloth, and someone suddenly let me out into the fresh air. what would i do without mozart.. .

it was the linz symphony no 36 in C major. and what's so amazing, is that he wrote the symphony in a matter of just 2 weeks. with every movement he has found away to maintain a stunningly delicate and lovely balance with such incredible ease. how does a man do that? every instrument comes in just at the right time, all the harmonic tension is resolved at just the perfect place..

i was telling mabel, no wonder mozart is IQ boosting. it was an unforgettable experience, all alone in my room. and to think that these guys of along ago have left behind such a vivid mark of unsurpassed excellence and musical perfection that till today, few composers have managed to attain. and it is only fair that i give mozart the fair homage that he is due.

Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele.
Seinem auf dem erdenrund!!

civil war

on sunday morning before first service the whole bunch of us, we were sitting in the music room talking crap. And so i decided to try to work on the opening number for the dinner. And it was only then that i realised that the intro, with the falling fifths sounded like some American civil war phreaking FUNERAL!!

why didn't i notice it earlier.. crap, and now that it's already been scored up and the brass musicians have practiced it we're so gonna need to do a salvage operation! i think i'm gonna have to tell then to play con ANIMATO!.. or else it could be con GRAVE... *shivers*

it's a celebration guys... let's make it sound like a horn cry... not some funeral... *scratches his head*

but then at least the rest of the opening is okay.. just need to figure out what to do with the first few progressions.



this is an image of the modeling we've been working on lately..



DESIGN ASSIGNMENT 2... supposed to design, well, anything.. so we decided to design an industrial continuous lift. lots of calculations... 39 PAGES to be exact... just calculations alone mind you, minus all the hours spent on modeling and simulation and brainstorming.. this is the frame and shafts with the sprockets and their welds in place. dun have the chains and the platforms yet.. gotta figure out how to insert those..

the emmy post

hello world!!!

Time to make karl's blog a little bit more interesting... :)
erm.. alrighty... I honestly don't know what to write...

oh okay, I just wanna say that karl and I really don't have a life.. (if you don't already know.. lol)
both of us are staying in uni until 11pm tonight..

WHY???????

Karl's reason: some project which he didn't bother to finish up earlier ;) .. so now he has to be a bit more rajin to finish it up since the project is due TOMORROW!!!!

My reason: I have a "plan".. A timetable to help with the revision... but since I'm so easily distracted at home.. I've decided to study in uni... Apparently I get more things done here.. APPARENTLY being the key word!

okay, time to get back to my book.. cellular metabolism to be precise... karl is bugging me for the com... I have no idea why he's bugging me.. since there are like SOOOOO many coms in the COM LAB... sheesh...

oh and btw, I would like to take this opportunity to thank karl for allowing me to crap on his blog! THANK YOU VERY MUCH KARL!!!

see ya folks!

Emmy

p/s: I will NEVER blog again!

the limit of proportionality

Any simple minded first year engineering student would immediately recognise this as a typical ENGINEERING STRESS STRAIN curve

yes, that's right, it's got to do with the tensile stresses applied to an object and the corresponding strain that it produces

if my emotional state were a specimen test subject, i'd be somewhere near POINT no2. why? cocs point no 2 is called the limit of proportionality, and it is very closely related to the YIELD STRESS!!
that's where an object begins to undergo plastic deformation after reaching it's limit of proportionality..

why the analogy? cos finally i've said yes, i've agreed, on certain terms to playing for the dinner, only the most necessary parts. i thought i was gonna stand my ground... oh well, yielding point came first. i decided it's the only way lest i end up at point no 3.. know what THAT IS???

the ultimate tensile stress....

that's where a material breaks.... or

in my case

i drop dead...

and i've decided i will survive these next three weeks... God's there. and boy am i glad HE is.




i've yielded

pressure

The 4oth anniversary dinner is coming up


And i've been asked to play for the opening number which i arranged. And i can't, i just can't. there's just too many things for me to handle and if i were to take this on, it would probably the last straw to signing me out with a burnout. I mean, i've said no so many times and it's so hard. the problem is, i understand how difficult it is what with everyone so busy and caught up at this time of the year.

I thought it was over the first time i said no. but they managed to come up with some very workable solutions, but still it was too risky and seemingly volatile a decision to make, and not wanting to sacrifice the time i needed for my studies i said no again. Then this time it was a change in rehearsal time to accommodate me.. and yet for some reason i couldn't see light at the end of the tunnel so i've said no again.

And by this point on monday night i was beginning to feel really rotten. I mean there's help needed, why is it i can't just go and give it? quite simple really, because my exam starts the very next morning after the dinner.

then Mabel (best friend) called.. "eh Karl, i heard the recording of the opening number you orchestrated. Cannot understand lah.. quite complicated. we REALLY need you to come play... you're gonna have to tell them what to do and all".

sigh.. i'm at a loss now..

hari raya

before i talk about anything else, it is unavoidable that i have to thank God for a wonderful time like Hari Raya, (some like to call it Harry reyer). SImply because of the AWESOME traffic in klang valley during this festive period. GOSH bliss!! imagine this, cruising at 110 for a straight 10 km along the federal highway, yes guys, the phreaking FEDERAL highway! how lovely is that.. LOVE HARI RAYA!!


So, yesterday the life groups of kota kemuning decided to get together for a barbecue evening at my house.. brian chong came along and my parents invited ruth too..

Jasmine's dad, James and my dad and myself, three of us got the fire started. and by 7 pm
this was one of the two pits that we had, and one of the ladies brought a funny hot plate thingie for frying stuff. quite cool. and here they were cooking the shrimps
it was still early, so there weren't relly that many peeps yet.. here's a shot taken from behind the pond. :)
brian and i.. and the lamb.. oh gosh.. it was awesome lamb!!
the piece that i was about to devour.. with a little bit of improvisation by ruth..
to give it some.. what should we say, character!!
there's this kid.. his name's eu wayne, and he just loves to bully me.. seriously.. so he wanted to take a photo and asked me to make a face, so i pulled all the stops for this.. after that, he just said "eh karl, looks like you lah.. are you sure you even made a face??" (ARRGGH!! the urge to strangle. but he's cute.)
here's his sister.. lovely violinist.. eu nise.. you're too shy though.. heh..
they took out the dining table.. and the kids were having makan there.. here they are.. mouths full of barbecue..
another two who couldn't get off me.. literally.. gosh.. i am seriously quite impatient with kids.. but i fail miserably when i try to get angry.. and they think it's all a joke.. Here's a photo i took with ruth

And denise.. :)


these two again.. couldn't keep them off the piano.. ("eh eh.. i can play THIS!!" "hah!! i'm better than you!") pheww.. asian kids.. kiasu... =P they are cousins btw..