Can'y wait for friday drift session with nicholas on Initial D. Very unhappy with my rx8 performance during raining condition. Sadly, we don't have car and the now most closest simulation to drifting got to be this.
Thursday Finally had my aikido training, chiong the school and the kallang. Back to normal lifestyle, drinkng a glass of milk after training. Its been a long time as i was occupied with Iron-Maiden. kind of miss her =.= So today returning back first day of being a Captain. o.O So far so good, have a enthu committee and of course the Seniors. if anyone of you guys reading this, HI! Today receives a few good welcome present, firstly the Rain, then the proposed Judo combine training. As we are always training outdoor, if it rain, its quite or rather really troublesome. The change of venue feel also very sian. Then Judo wants to have combine training which Sensei disapprove which his explanation is quite true and have to agree on it. Aikido teaching here is very strong here, what we learn is to defend and no competition stuffs. Sensei's experience is quite a good example, which i won't share here :P
Just a share when i was in Ninja-Do days. Everytime if there is sparring, which is one of my most excited and nervous. There one guy very veryguan lan and i wont forget. I think his hobby is to foul play, always love to play fouls and try to not make it deliberately to the sensei. Attacking below the belt area, the head considers foul.
So this guy after a while of normal sparring, he goes for the head/below and says 'sorry' after getting warning, &#% him! This guy needs to taste his own medicine! The shiok part is maybe he thinks that i wont go foul too!! haha So using the ball of my heel, straight down from head to the face even the spectacle flew out. Then say 'sorry' back :D hell yeah Then the match is stopped.
So the morale of story is that fighting each other, hurts, which Aikido doesn't wants to see. And now i'm wearing braces and i also don't want.
The word 'Judo' got me thought of another guy from Judo who joined ninja-do. Being a Mixed Martial Art (MMA) type, the sparring can go from standing until the ground and that time i wasn't good in grappling. Got slammed by that guy onto the hard concrete floor, i think i have post it very long time ago.
The night training @kallang was damn fun. There are white belts from NS men which they definitely have the strength but need time on technique. Learn new locks variant of Sankyo which can make one become sadist, its painful and enjoyable!! Right now, I prefer going to the night on thursday than on sunday morning. The new hall have been renovated nicely too bad cannot switch on air-con.
Wednesday EARLY MORNING 5AM wake up and then travel bus.5 to Bukit Merah interchange, small and Ulu. Had Air force interview plus seminar which took up the whole afternoon. Now they changing the name of Senior Techincian to AirForce Engineer(AFE). More than 20 people applied for this Diploma Scholarship. A lot of people including me, asked more than 1 hour of questions. Such as how they assign our post. They try to post us to that is relevant to our course, preference and availability. During the the interview, there were 2 officer, one very big build and i'm gonna pee in my pants if he were to stares at me. XD One of them i have seen him at AirForce School and another during TP open house. So i stepped in, he said : "Hey,you look familiar, so why AirForce?". LOL Talk until, I've joined Aikido. Both of them suddenly two of them go 'hhiieeyaahh'. O.O OMG its my first time having such interview and have to suppress my inner laughter (>_<)
They called before i was having training saying I PASSED interview!!! Next is Medical check-up and they assign on the 14 april which is the last day of Aikido chalet which also means no need to help clean up and check-out!! WOOHOO they will kill me if they read this :D but sian have to back the Ulu place and have my handphone locked up and maybe even have to strip for check up!! :O NOOOO
What i worry now is my spine problem. If the medical check up says i can't, i will be at a loss, might breakdown.
I was diagnosed during my early year of secondary school day with Scoliosis. Abnormal curve of spine. Mine from back view, 14 deg to the left making my right shoulder blade protrude a bit. Sian arh, even the Chinese physician whom i go there to pull/push/stretch my bones/joints/back here and there, advise me to best avoid sports which can stress my back and one of it is marital arts. I still heck care until now but holding on to a limit as already now showing some signs of it. Sometime during the night, my back sores like someone pour acid, can't bloody sleep like right now as i'm posting. >_< As long i have a glass of milk, regular exercise,back stretching, should be okay bah.
Right now i'm still young, what if i reach certain age :x
Hello! Didn't post anything these past few days. Friday was the competition day and Saturday was the award presentation day. This competition definitely gave a me huge boost in interest in making something that can fly.
Friday The battleground is located at the Annexe besides science center. The air con inside is very cold!! Many teams seems to withdrawn which left only to about less than 20 teams. Competitors from last year were present and their presence looks very strong.
There's Black Ace from RP flying mikrokopter too. They even have their own jacket! NUS UAV research team this year the only team going fully autonomous which was a sight to behold, watching the little craft flying on its own without pilot interference. Sadly it only completed 3 obstacles. can't imagine how many DEG or even Master? holders are working on it.
We are in CAT D, the most difficult category. Either Fly by video, semi- autonomous, Fully autonomous. Each of the flying mode have different multiplier on the final score, X1, X2, X4 respectively. The Semi mode is a grey area as it wasn't stated clearly what kind of Semi they want. Nobody flew by video this year as it is even more difficult than Semi, in my point of view. For semi and fully, the pilot get to see their craft. While by video, pilot will be flying through video display on TV and inside a room.
During the start of competition, we told the jugde TP is going Video. To our surprise many teams that were flying the same MK but is in semi mode. TP team went to clarify and the organiser were finally convinced that our MK were actually SEMI!! YAY!! We told them that MK have central stablisation which normal RC plane/heli is unable to do so. Whereby if you were to pull down one of its arm and release it, the MK will stable itself back. So it seems that we didn't know this were considered semi. Actually what the jugdes wants to see in semi craft ,is the craft at least will fly by itself and the pilot will only help steering, drop ball etc.
Everything went well for Engineering Boys, Iron-Maiden neither touch the floor nor hit anything!! Well Done , Xian DE!! The obstacles there are made from METAL and we witness many crafts just one hit and break propellers and black hawk down... Our first attempt, we scored 95/100, completed all obstacles but miss the BULL'S EYE and landed the outer ring!!! We have the highest score in this round.
Murphy's Law is one big killer in this competition. During our second attempt to fly in the afternoon, there is no video signal to the TV!!!! Just in the morning on first attempt, the video transmission was alright. What just went wrong? And teacher says it is the last video transmitter during the final flight practise! Tried everything thing to make the TV display something. All thanks to samuel, he thought of the extra video transmitter that was found in a box just in the morning, even teacher was unsure why there is a extra inside the box.hmm..
This time we miss the bull's eye by 2 rings, awww. Black Aces scored 100/100. NUS didn't mange to complete all but good job on getting it fully auto.
Saturday Award presentation day. Engineering Boys Best Presentation- GOLD Best Performance- Bronze Championship- 3rd place,Bronze
Sadly there is then $$$ for GOLD, but best presentation don't have $$$ just medals T.T. This year, Black Ace 1st, Nus 2nd, we 3rd. Happy of course, this is our first time competing with the lao jiao(old birds). Course Manager, Mr Tang were there too.
Next Year, or rather this year October when the SAFMC 2011 challenge is announced. Prepared for new courses and also the classic Bull's Eye target. Hope Black Ace will compete as it will be their final year in poly and we will definitely want to have good match again. Also NUS is able to solve their fully autonomous problems which they might the few making Fully auto in Singapore. Maybe even stronger teams will enter this time round.
not all present.
Nus in action
Black Ace in action
Spying on DORAEMON!!
AIRSHIP!! It was quite amusing to see it cradle around as its difficult to fly around BUT IT SCORES BULL'E EYE!!!$#%^%#
Tomorrow is the last day of flying practise. Let hope for smooth day, today is quite a headache already. The video transmitter today totally blacked out, have to use the final one.
Sad to say, after friday, will miss the days we spend so much time on Iron-Maiden.
My parents got delayed flight until 1am then can reach SG.
PREPARE FOR TAKE-OFF! A massive Dogfight awaits. Friday will be the day!
We are now going through intensive fly-by-video training. Great thing is. It is indoor, air-con. Flying through Free access lab's corridor. Very narrow to go left,right. Good propeller sustained 1hour of slashing against the wall before breaking.
Today soldered new sets of 4 ESC, all within 1 day. I'm still slow in soldering,sad.. Hopefully, they will be used for the next future craft and not as a replacemnt to Iron-Maiden. Sam got a kiss from Iron-Maiden, some cuts on the leg o.O first blood. Hope it will be the first and the last.
Maybe next year or competiton, using these esc. We may have the craft majority made from carbon-fibre, reach a semi-autonomous flight,gps stuff.
Whenever Iron-Maiden is airborne, all i wish is she can have equal number of take-off and landings (difficult) and have least minimum impact crashes.
After listening to the life-stories of my lecturers,the adults, i can't wait to have one of my own. Such as going Around the world...O.O
Next is mine,drifting. First get a job, a good one hopefully. Have my own DRIFT CAR, no kidding. Knowing how F&*^*&% expensive to have a car in Singapore. Even it takes 10years to reach, i will take everyday as a step closer to it. Looking how those guys in DriftGarage Singapore share their passion for drifting. Their meet up photos just makes me go drooling :D Ever since that day, that initial D movie came during my secondary school days. Which makes me a fan of jay chou, then the anime then m.o.v.e.
I found my own life goal, is to DRIFT. Simple or childish or stupid it is. Not everyone likes it. But its just something that makes me falls in love with it. 10 years or 8years or until my other half-appear.
Hope the passion i have now, wont dies off, it seems it wont. :P My simple wish, seems not simple at all.
First was Mazda RX-7, now is RX-8. Rotary Engines!!
Saturday Woke up with very bad sore throat and slight fever,cold. Make the matter worst, my braces is rubberband-tied throughout the night. Can't open my mouth and the sore infection inside launch massive attack on my throat like SPARTANss!! The whole night can't sleep well at all :c
Luckily, there's Strepsils Cool Mint. Eat it every 2 hours to kill the irrating infection. This shows that my body needs a good rest. Slept the whole afternoon while waiting for washing machine to finish.
My parents went to Cameran Highland in Malaysia. My sister will be going back to stay in TP on Monday. This means i will be alone till wednesday. Anyway, will be busy with Iron Maiden this week.
So i'm in-charge of the house. Luckily my mother have made us to do housework, so everything is okay. I've become the father, the mother of the house le!
Laundry, Clean the floor, water the plants, help my father to do prayer stuff, refilling the oil lamp.
All this eats up a lot of time, especially Laundry and many thanks to the rain, have to wait longer for the clothes to dry. Get the feeling of why my mother always flared up her temper when she do housework =P
Housework these day is not restricted to housewives only. Even my father also do housework. Doing it is for the family. You want them to live comfortably.
Can't wait for Friday, where all the flying machine will have a DOGFIGHT SHOWDOWN!! But siao, 7.30am to 7.30pm at science center ANNEX. Visitors should be free.
After the competition, maybe a 'dogfight' with AEG or just all fly together. XD
What is this DOGFIGHT?? Aerial Combat between fighter aircraft or small groups of machines engaging each other in a fight to the death.
It's been quite sometime i go back training since CNY. But it will be after competition. :p
Sunday Throat is getting better. Finally reduced pain when talking. Me, mei, hui yi, the 3 AAA batteries go bugis. Since our parent all go Cameran, leaving us poor kids in singapore... Bought some nice shirt. Standard price $10 or $12.
Early morning 7.30am meet up in school and do last minute check on powerpoint slides. Iron-Maiden is back working again. :D Headed straight down to Science Center. Mr Ng and another lecturer, who is one of the 'investor', drove the six of us. That day seems only for our category, CAT D, for poly & Uni. Waiting time was very fast and it was our turn.
There were 3 main judges sitting, while four more just sitting behind listen. We were shocked at first with 7 of them in the presentation room. Each of them were expert in different fields of aviation,they are the veteran or 'lao jiao' old bird. so its is the best to be honest with them. Thank goodness. They crack joke a bit, which loosen the tense atmosphere. Lasted for 15 minutes and we even ate into the Q&A time ;D
This year is the second year this competition is held. A lot of teams (including us) bought the same craft as the last year champion, the mikrokopter. It is the best candidate for the completion of the course given. Looks like this year, expect for a very TOUGH DOGFIGHT!
Went back to school and continue on C PROGRAMMING until 6pm!! Wahh, it is considered a language. Either you get it or you dont. I'm stuck in-between.
A good News came. Our team, Engineering Boys is in the top6 for best presentation award!!! Bad news, we have to present AGAIN THE NEXT DAY!!! Looks like no choice, we have to skip MCT test on Fri. Anyway I have little confidence in it. Good news to me!:P
Struggle with the alien computer language and also filtering till 6pm. THEN!! Our Course Manager suddenly wants to meet us after our MCT!!! It was to encourage us and also help us to improve our slide as she invite our 'Effective Communication' teacher in sem1.1. O.O Straight after MCT went to gave them a presentation again, Mr Tang also came in. So there were, 1 course manager, 3 lecturers discussing together with the few of us. UNTIL 8PM, wah steady pom pi pi!
This means we cannot afford to waste everybody efforts. xp
Friday Same thing again. Everyone face have the same 'Knocked Out' look. :D
This time all the category is here. This kind of national competition sure enough, top schools come compete. You name it, you have it. Uni,Poly,JC,Sec,Pri.
More than 2 hours of Waiting time... Special-Op a bit here and there but still very bored, last resort, PSP. Finally. It was our turn to the WAITING AREA for another 30mins... Suddenly,recevied my result via sms. dropped by 0.04 to 3.79 >< Have push it back to 3.8 at least!!
This time round, unlike the day before. The judges are tired. So the whole thing is quite un-smooth.
Went to whitesand to meet the rest of class. West to East Played Daytona or 'bumper car'
Anyway, hopefully no more calling from them saying we are in top 3 or something... and have to go back. FAT HOPE lar what am i thinking..
Waiting area with AEG
Our Iron Maiden is the smallest mikrokopter i've seen.
Yesterday our Iron Maiden had a worst crash EVER!! What's more it landed right infront of us, within that few second, 3motor down with spilted propellers flying out. Lucky no one is hurt, only our Maiden. 3batteries and while using the last one, a sudden big gust of wind blew the whole craft out of sight!! Then can hear only the propeller cutting down all the tree leaves as it flies, next thing the bird landed straight down at us. Heartache~ Have to ground it until fully repair.
These 3 days, Wed to Fri 9am to 6pm go school. There's a subject call MCT(Mirco-controller techique) which needs C programme and these 3 days is to prepare us. Thursday need to go science center presentation, then meet up aiki people in school. Looks like cannot go MCT on Thurs.
Seriously now my eye is tired. I WANT TO FIND ONE DAY THAT I CAN SLEEP FOR 10HOURS???!!!
Came back from Darren's chalet and slept until now.
Yesterday On flying mahcine. EARLY morning went school as usual ;(, seriously the fatigue is building up inside. Bought the 2 very cheap laser pointer to test whether it can be a guidance for dropping the ball. Concluded it is not very effective. :( The bird have zero-topple,no ninja turtle. New longest flight recorded, more than 5mintues. Felt great watching the effort put in is finally taking flight. Radio transmission problems keep coming out. Have to depend on the the environment factors, all the bandwidth interference. As mention in previous post, the very tok-gong camera finally gave us problems. Teacher share his experience with his radio knowledge. It seems that our camera has powerful frequency, that capable of "jamming" other tranmission. At first, my evil thought came as we can turn on our camera and jam other teams. I love Karma indeed. Our remote control(RC control) transmission was the first victim. Headache Went for lunch break and new problems arise, $%^# Murphy Law!! Landing gears gave way and damaged the battery a bit and loss of ball-dropping latch. Thanks to the team effort we spent another 3-4hours untill 6pm to get it done. Then teacher found a solution to the radio stuff. Went to the field test out, which was okay :D sick right, holiday,stay in school till friday evening.
This coming week can foresee it will be more TIRING. Having presentation to the science center people on Thursday. Teacher will be on course,meetings and means any problem will be us solving it.
Straight after that went to costa sand resort pasir ris, not costa sand downtown! (got loss ) Darren, weihao,sam,edwin was there. Majong few rounds, i tired until the 'bird and chicken' tiles got mixed up. The chicken is bigger in value than bird and have to show in the beginning which i didn't. Discard the chicken out, everyone LOL. XD watch tv until fell asleep around 9 pm. woke up at 1am. jianwei,xiaohai and andy came while i was in lalaland. tried to ton the night, trying to differentiate the SNSD members, watch movies until 6 to 7 am, one by one until all down. All thanks to andy's 5 songs which keep replaying LIKE lullaby. 8 guys on 4 beds, lol, like gay party. Snoring .
Woke up at 8am to find out the 5 songs still playing, LOL,very irrating le. Checked out at 10 am and went to escape since got ticket.
Last time went in should be like sec1 or even primary six. No more the 360 degree turn, sad. Love only the viking ship and go-kart. Almost all like getting boring even hunted house... The BK there scam edwin's money, outside the meal price eg.$4.95, inside there same price but only burger. O.O Played pool 1 hour, i blur liao, mistook the stripe ball as white ball. -.- Went back , bath, SLEEP
Looking back the past secondarys school days from 2004 till now, this bunch of people is still here cracking jokes, guai lan-ing. Now andy's freedom is going to end soon, going to be policemen liao. :D
Now even feel like sleeping. Feel like going training tomorrow morning~
Today flying practise is success! Zero ninja turtle with the new configuration. Xian De's flying more and more steady. Today tried out the setting closest to competition. Ball servo, Video transmission all up.
Teacher made a very good investment in the video transmission. Yesterday Aeg's video transmit from covered-walkway as base to middle of field then loss transmission. Today our one, damn solid. Go Until the end of the opposite side of the field, still have transmission. Video view on tv is okay with loss of colouring. STEADY ARH!!! more practise and practise! teacher spent until 4.30am to ensure new configuration is okay. Right now, he can take a good rest.
Learning point: To gain something, another thing will be loss. We want good video transmission,battery life but at the expense of heavier weight and shorter usage time. Same compromise concept can be use in life too, truth truth.
There will be pre-MCT lesson on C programme which is compulsory during next week. However Thursday we will be having presentation at science center so not in school :p
Tomorrow night going Darren's chalet and at end of month u901 3 days chalet. Right now my eyelid is getting heavier. sleeps, dream again :D
Just finished presentation slides for next Thursday at science center.
The course manager showed us the video he took last year. Gosh, lots of crashes and failed take-off. Murphy law's presence is always there. gahhh.
Today(3 march) The new configuration proves difficult in landing. In the end have to go back the old one and start over again tomorrow. Now left is PREPARE SPARE PARTS or even cloning another bird, means soldering time again. And more flight practise for pilot. The rest is up to lady luck. Sunburn again after taking video and pictures of iron maiden's flight. Survives lots of flip-over (ninja turtle) when landing. Aeg guys started the video flying. AHHHH tired.... Mr Ng is really the MAN behind all the work (_ _)
Looks like wont be going training until competition over le. T.T Sure will sleep on the mats ^.^ Holiday,10am to 5 or 6 pm in school. WHoa O.O
Got to enjoy the new album by move, just found it :D Dream Again
Yesterday, me,Louis,Vin went to sign up Basic Theory Test(BBT). Louis forgotten to bring IC and today morning went down again to sign up. Same person at the counter, she ask: you look familiar. Surprisingly, we saw Wafy there too.
Congrats Wafy for PASSING and GETTING LICENSE!!
And Airforce finally called for interview, 24 march. ^.^
Well, this week marks the start of preparing Iron Maiden ,not only ready for flight , but competition.
Whenever we finish a problem another will just pop out. xp
Go back school like normal. Today get to eat Thai food at Short Circuit, finally :D
Tomorrow Course Manager meeting us (>.<)
Yesterday
Everything went well. One side do powerpoint, one side flying practise, one side do camera.
Finally we went to observe how AEG ,2 teams is doing. AEL now left our team.
They make a replica and have it own unique start-on cute sound.
Aviation field likes to use
Murphy's Law: When something will go wrong , it will.
Therearemany variations of the saying.
Indeed, the back motor stop functioning during flight the rest you can think of it.
Today, Iron Maiden added new servo board and tried flight test on the ground without propeller. BACK MOTOR not working too!! same as AEG
Now tracing back, it should be the new board added (><)
Wanted to test the camera on tv, but due to fatigue ,lack of motivation (from Dirty Dozen:D)with only 3 people present and teacher having meeting. So called it a day.
I went back, bath with cold water(extreme hot weather) and sleep like nobody business.
Yesterday during observation. We help the botak tree pluck out the leaves and below theres a group of pass-by and we throw the leaves down. :D they got surprised and laugh :D We up there laugh like mad
AEG with their mock up course circuit and their clone.
Top: the Bird's eye. Bottom: the ground recevier to tv
Leave the past behind. Learn it as experience. Time to face a new start. I can.
Thought of this song, simple lyrics yet kind of encourage me :D F.I.R you have succeeded in making someone :D
Koh Chuan Kai
15 Nov 1991
TEMASEK POLY
AEROSPACE ELECTRONIC Bedok West Pri,Telok Kurau Pri,Damai Sec
chuankaikoh@hotmail.com
Coming Soon
19Mar Singapore Amazing Flying Machine 2010
24 Mar AirForce Interview
29-31Mar class chalet
4 April Braces Tightening
13April eTrial Basic Theory Test
16April BTT
FORMULA DRIFT 2010 DIEDIE MUST GO ~APRIL
CAAS EXAM ~???APRIL
19 April First day of Year2.1