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2008-11-24T12:45:00.000+08:00

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HUMAN FACTORS

GROUP PROJECT

The Deregulation Act of 1978 Improves Air Safety

DEEE/ FT/ 3B/61

Name of Tutor: Mr Tng Swee Huat

Team Members :

Farhan (0628035)

Alief (0628668)

Abhishek (0628163)

Date of Submission: 20 November 2008

Content Page

Sypnosis 3

Speaker 1
Introduction 4
Fast Paced Industry 4
Human Experience 5

Speaker 2
Lower Fare Cost 6
Increase In Productivity 6
Medical And Safety Department Reduction 7

Speaker 3
Consequences faced when Deregulation
Act was implemented 8
Ozark Airlines 8
Air Florida Palm 90 9
Conclusion 9

Reference 10

Sypnosis

The following report is on the subject of the Deregulation Act of 1978. We are opposing the fact that this act improves the air safety. It reviews the impact of the Deregulation Act on aircraft operations, compromising mainly of the air safety. In this report, two fatal crashes, Ozark and Air Florida Palm 90, would be used to emphasize the consequences faced by the respective airline companies when the Deregulation Act of 1978 was implemented. Also it will cover on the economic pressure faced by the airline company. This report does not take in the statisitcs of airline crashes.

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Speaker 1

Introduction

The Deregulation Act of 1978 is an act to amend the Federal Aviation Act, it is meant to encourage, develop, and attain an air transportation system which relies on competitive market forces to determine the quality, variety, and price of air services, and for other purposes. Before this action was taken, the industries resemble a public utility, with a government agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), setting the routes for the airline and supervise the prices they charged. After the deregulation act, it has become a commercialized business. Customers determine their own satisfaction for their flight. From there on, the industry has become a striving industry, with airline companies trying to be the best all air transporter services.

Fast Paced Industry

With competitions up in hand, airline companies have a lot of rivalries. They lower their fares and increase their airline efficiencies. All this just to improve, smoothen and make the flow goes as planned. And not to forget to gain most profits. This lead to the rapid increase of air traffic. Therefore I shall begin my debate by quoting a saying by a presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, in 1981, “… too few people working unreasonable hours with obsolete equipment has placed the nation’s air travellers in unwanted danger.”

At the time, U.S. controllers were:

▪ The only controllers in the world forced to work 40-hour weeks.

▪ Often forced to work overtime of up to 20 hours a week.

▪ Suffering from hypertension and other stress-related ailments at extraordinary rates. Nearly 90 percent were leaving before retirement, and about 40 percent of those to collect disability payments.

Only then six years later, in 1987, air traffic controllers founded a new organization, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, or NATCA. Their goal was to obtain representation of their interests and to bring more attention to the safety and efficiency issues facing the industry. These show that something was done to improve the safety. Thus pointing out that the deregulation act is threatening the passengers’ safety.

At the time:

▪ Shortage in staff and pressure near mid-air collisions rises has threatening passenger safety.

▪ The number of controllers was not even remotely keeping pace with growth of air traffic.

Human Experiences
Not only has the threat come from people working so hard to chase their speculated time. But also, in the past, experience from the airline crew were lacking.
Paul Stephen Dempsey, former law professor at the University of Denver, also believe that the self-regulating market has lowered the "margin of safety." One of his articles differentiates the flight time of newly-hired airline pilots in 1983 to ones hired in 1988 - 1989. His conclusion had less than those hired in 1983. The verdict, The Deregulation Act of 1978, was causing a decline in experience of pilots hired by the airlines. He ignored to compare them to the experience level of pilots hired before deregulation. This was done because of one reason; they were even less experienced than those hired after deregulation.
Through 1964 till 1967, many of the recent employed had only a decent few hundred hours of single engine Cessna time and no instrument valuation. Some were even hired without any flight time at all. At least if they had at least a master’s degree, the airline would sign them for a course to certify them commercial license (minimum of 160 hours single engine Cessna time). This was a threat to the air safety as well.
Speaker 2

Lower fare costs

Due to the deregulation act of 1978, the cost of airfares have dropped quite significantly, at least by 10%-18% as stated in one reliable source in the internet (www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/AirlineDeregulation.html)

Although the act resulted in some discrimination in airfares due to the intensity of competition from one market to another such as, for example, an extract from the same source stated above, prices per mile are usually much higher on thinly travelled than on densely travelled routes. They also are higher for the minority of travellers who have to pay full coach fares because they are unwilling or unable to meet the typical conditions for discounts (advance purchase, non refundable, and staying over a weekend).

Increase in productivity

There was also a rise in airline productivity, mainly on airline prices and on where they can fly. It allows airlines to fill in more seats in their aircraft and also permitted them to plan their routes as they see fit.

Deregulation has also compelled improvements in efficiency through the intense pressures of the price competition it unleashed. The dramatic move to hub-and-spoke operations (in which an airline routes its flights through one or several "hub" cities) has increased efficiency in a number of ways. For example, it has allowed better adaptation of equipment to markets; such as, small props and jet props for short hops and few passengers; big jets for dense, long-haul routes. It has also allowed the use of larger and more efficient planes and the offer of a wider variety of destinations although there was a slight increase in airfares in the circuitry of routes.

Medical And Safety Department Reductions

Economic crunch have urge airline company to cut down on their medical and safety departments in their attempts to cut costs. In the event off staying ahead in the business at that point of time, airline companies are willing to cut lose in the medical and safety department.

“ Nevertheless, airlines have been cutting back on their medical services and staff of safety departments of those airlines that have them have also been curtailed by economic pressure”.
This was quoted from a book titled Airline Deregulation by brenner, Leet and Schoutt.

This just prove that right after the deregulation act, airline companies are neglecting on the air safety. They are more keen on having their air taxi transportation running smoothly with the high demands from the market, rather than thinking on the medical and safety of the airline throughout.

Speaker 3

This report serves to counter the vast amount of false and misleading information on the subject of airline safety. When the Deregulation Act was implemented in 1978, many areas such as fares, routes and schedules were rectified. This meant that the airline industuries were now exposed to the market forces, freeing them from government control.

Consequences faced when Deregulation Act was implemented

As a result, many airline industries had full liberty to set their fares accordingly. This lead to stiff competition between the respective industries whereby the number of flights were increasing dramatically. To ensure that quotas were met, planes were kept in the air for more hours each day and more seats were filled. Maintenance of planes had to be done swiftly so that planes could be kept flying at all times. However, safety of the aircrafts were compromised during maintenance and repair. In order to cut costs and compete effectively with the other carriers, safety and maintenance of the aircraft were dealt with irresponsibly. Examples of these are the Ozark airlines and Air Florida Palm 90.

Ozark Airlines

Ozark airlines began flight operations with DC-3 aircrafts during the 1950s. One of the major accidents during that time was the illegal usage of reduced power for take-off. The captain of that particular plane also refused de-icing and refused to go out and look at his wings, even after he was informed that his plane was covered with ice. Though there were no fatalities, the plane was a total loss. Nevertheless, air safety was compromised just so that the aircraft could continue flying.

Air Florida Palm 90

Air Florida Palm 90 had one of the most fatal crashes, resulting in the loss of 74 lives. A technical glitch had caused a false indication of more power than they actually had. This was because the pilots had involuntarily reduced power because they failed to turn on the electric anti-ice heaters for the engine power probes. The combination of the ice covered wings and low power caused an immediate stall on takeoff which lead to the crash into the Potomac River. Negligence on air safety was a major factor contributing to the crash.

Conclusion

Generally, given all the points above, the Deregulation Act of 1978 does indeed promote cheaper fares as well as longer routes. However, the negative impacts have far more consequences. Air safety is neglected tremendously. Statistics are not shown as causes of each accident are diligently investigated to find the cause so that future repetitions would be prevented Therefore, the Deregulation Act of 1978 does not improve air safety.

References

Airline Deregulation by Brenner, Leet and Schoutt
http://www.avjobs.com/airline-deregulation.asp

http://www.natca.org/100years/
http://www.airlinesafety.com/faq/faq3.htm
http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-af90.shtml

http://www.airlinesafety.com/faq/faq3.htm
http://www.centennialofflight.gov

human factor

2008-11-24T00:00:00.001+08:00

3.1) Safety issues

3.1.1) Improvement in Safety
Safety has not deteriorated since deregulation. In fact, in every category of air travel, from major airlines to small private planes, safety has improved-in terms of number of accidents and number of fatalities.

3.1.2) Accident rates
A study conducted by Russell Lawton in 1993 has shown a decrease in accident rate per 100,000 flights hours decreased by 53% between 1987 and 1992.
In 1956 to 1977, 21 years before the implementation of the deregulation, the total number of accidents during that period was 1045 and the number of fatal accidents was 155.
In 1978 to 1999, 21 years after the deregulation act, the total number of accidents during that period was 542 and the number of fatal accidents was 52.
Before deregulation, there was an average of 49.76 accidents and 7.38 fatal accidents per year. After deregulation, there was an average of 25 accidents and 2.5 fatal accidents per year. That was a large reduction of 49.75% in the total number of accidents and a reduction of 66.12% in fatal accidents and all this happened after the deregulation.

3.1.2) Technology
Between 1938 and 1977, 39 years before the deregulation act, the average accident rate and fatal accident rate is 42 and 6.7 respectively. By comparing these values with the average accident rate between 1956 and 1977, statistics show that there has been mild improvement in air safety. This shows us that the improvement of aircraft technology during that period did not improve air safety and is not an important factor when talking about the deregulation.

3.2) Motives
The safety issue seems to be a diversion for those who wish for relax competition in the airline business and return it to the good old days when established airlines could make money merely by satisfying federal regulators, rather than travellers.

Rather than scrimp on safety measures to gain short-term profits, airlines have found it even more in their interest to ensure the safety of passengers and therefore gain longer term profits and the trust of the passengers. – Simply put, no one earns money by putting passengers in danger

CLOSED

2008-09-03T02:08:00.005+08:00

Time for a change of templates!!!

afternoon-rain.blogspot.com <---- my new link and template that I complied

please relink again thank you!!!

Morning walk ~

2008-08-03T16:00:00.003+08:00

My mom and sis woke me up at 9.30. *yawn~* ... so tired and sleepy when I woke up. We went for a LOOOONG walk to Punggol area and then walked back to Compassvale LRT station. The walk took like an hour plus. Saw some men playing with their RC aircraft at an empty field near Punggol area. My sis was like "drop drop drop" lol.

Kinda bored now.. chatting with Su Ling feels abit weird, she did alot of "hahahass" and I "lol" along with her. Hmm like there is not much common topic to breach since she watches drama like Delwyn, maybe those could get along better (Su Ling is the girl I met on Friday during Festival of Praise, Chin Wee invited me to go with his cell group as he was busy ushering)

Playing "Me and My Katamari" on my psp. Its an Idiotic game but its still fun. You play as the Prince and the objective of the game is to use your katamari, a sticky ball, and make things stick to the ball and make it grow. There is a time limit of course and a certain size for my ball to grow to. After that the King of All Cosmos blows on the ball and makes it into an island for animals to live in.

Overall this game is quite fun. You get to hear people scream in terror when you roll them up with your katamari, people run away from you as your ball approaches.
Game play is quite repeative as all the stages are about rolling things up and they tend to reuse the maps a few times.

Summery: The kinda game you play when you just want to kill some time. Like what I am doing now.

TUESDAY LABTEST GO GUYS!!!!

hmm hi!

2008-08-02T00:36:00.002+08:00

Hungry now... eating cheese bread and drinking milo ^_^

Did 2 fyp drawings today. Well at least Del should be happy abit.

Sickening ... SEM exams are coming!!! FREAK OUT EVERYONE!!

Experiences in a sentence.
"You can feel more emotions from the song when you close your eyes and sing"

Dusty..

2008-07-16T15:08:00.003+08:00

Just came home hoping to turn on my PC and play some Archlord when my PC died on me again ARGH. I wasted 1 hour opening and cleaning my PC with an eraser, brush and a vacuum cleaner. Well at least it worked! Two more hours untill jogging.

full

2008-07-13T21:30:00.002+08:00

just came back form sizzling. normally when we go and eat at somewhere thats not a foodcourt (usually somewhere that cost more) we celebrate something birthday etc. well today was some what of a "mydaddyisgoingawayfor2weeks" dinner.

Hopes he come back safe and sound ^_^

small caps!

2008-07-09T22:42:00.002+08:00

went jogging with zoe and daxi today. its the first time i ran at night! met them at 8pm and started running stright away which caused my right ankle to ache during mid run. i managed to clear 2.8km while the others did more since one ran before 8 and the other ran home cause she did't have money on her ez-link card and is paiseh to hear the teh sound from the tap card. feeling really good but tired now.

nothing beats running with your best friend! Sleep now!

LOOOOOONG dayS

2008-07-04T14:11:00.005+08:00

Interesting dream combination on thursday night

Well it started with me walking around some shops in a plaza. Then some people from a bakery called me in. Then they told me they were going out for their "walk" and told me to watch the bakery.
They came back moments later and were holding wades of cash ! (1000 dollor notes mind you) And they each gave me about 85% of what they held woot i guess the 15% must be their pay =S

Then the scene changed. Daxi and I were walking in some mall and I guess we must have been searching for a game or somthing. The scene then then changed to a home like setting, and I walked into the room and saw daxi wearing a strange futurestic googgle and holding a hilt of a sword without the blade with a sensor on the top and bottom. Looks like he was playing world of warcraft with a new expansion (GO BLIZZARD EVEN IN MY DREAM U HAVE EXPANSION!) and using that sensor sword to fight.

Later my view changed into a weird castle, possibly a fake disney. I was in a tour group and we did some weird puzzles =.= and thats where I woke up.

Friday morning! I woke up a bit late =/ and walked around. Talked to my mother and ask about her cough. Then I starting writing this post but I could never finish it that day so I saved it. Felix's friends were already here so I did a quick shower and stuffed all my clothes into my bag.
We went to Loyang Aloha chalet. Rachel, Felix and his friends went to cycle while my mom and I looked after the chalet.. My mom took my psp from me T_T played Luxor! some color ball puzzle game and played for about 2hours. =.= Well we mostly stoned and watched TV while the kiddies celebrated Felix's birthday. Slept at 2.30am my mom cough got worse =(

Saturday morning. Woke up at 9 so that we can check out. NOT ENOUGH SLEEP!!! go home change go out AGAIN!!! Ate lunch and collect my dad's Easy glider PRO RC aircraft. well after all that it was 5.30pm when we reached back home. Shower, Change and go out AGAIN. To go for NAC dinner! And guess what? NARU~! appeared. I'm so glad she came back. Dinner and then we went to play mindcafe untill 3am in the morning! ( Sleepy -.- ) reach home and slept at 4.15 after doing some mild exercise.

Sunday morning ! woke up at 10am ( I am so sleep deprived. According to my own standard ) to meet people like Daxi, Karling, Zoe and Thomas at chinatown at 11.45am. Went to 5 STAR to buy tickets to bintan and book rooms. Later we went to suntec to look for bikini for Karling and Zoe ( very shy girl. first time buying )
Ate lunch.
Thomas left.
Watched Hancock.
Karling left. (PANG SEH)
Eat dinner.
Woo late liao.
reach home and shower and now its 11.15 and I just finished my long and tiring weekend. Kinda wished I had a quiet and relaxing weekend lol. It was fun still.

post exams...

2008-06-30T21:00:00.004+08:00

Wow exams really went by so fast.. and i just took back my dps results hmm 69/100 (looks the same even if you invert it) abit crappy imo. Thank you Anna Chan for being lenient on our grades.

Well was sitting in the train on my way home. (alone once again DARN. Chinwee keep going to church haha) I was listening to Wishes sung by Emi Fujita. ( and Ryuji Fujita her husband )

My favourite part of the lyrics

Looked in the sky and there I saw a star shining so bright above
I closed my eyes and wished upon a star that I would find true love
Someone who needed meSomeone to share my life
For a love that would be true
I would wait forever
So no matter how long it may beI will be waiting
One star-brighter than the others
Two hearts-beating for each other
I believe wishes really do come true

Sadly she recently divorced with her husband this year. Wonder if her music will still be so hopefull in future.

bad bad

2008-06-10T19:38:00.002+08:00

Bad things.

PC died.

No arena.

Foot got boils of sort.

MST coming.

Must study.

Report to do.

bleh

sucks abit

THAILAND EVIL

2008-05-11T02:04:00.002+08:00

Well there goes Daxi. On his 3 week adventure to Thailand on his oversea exercise. Sad cannot see him in WoW. Come back soon!

Slogging away at my report for my GEMS. I picked the title An examination of the uses and importance of nonverbal communication. Well seems to be easy o0 I mostly told them how body language worked in hospital and in work place so far. Managed to clock up 500+ words now. Lucky I watched HOUSE M.D, this allowed me to write an example of a patient lying about his drug intake and how knowing nonverbal communication doctors are able to detect lying. "Everyone lies" famous line said by Dr. House ^_^ I totally agree.

well about 700 more words to hit 1200.

Go brain!

100meter again?

2008-05-08T23:36:00.002+08:00

Thursdays again! that means running after school. Delwyn is a bit crazy. While Angus Karling and I are running at a slow and steady pace, Delwyn seems to be sprinting, resting, sprinting and resting. I don't think that is good for the heart at all.

I'm watching "The contender" now. Boy that Thai guy is kicking the Australian arm untill it turns red. You should hear the sound of the kicks they give each other. They sound like two whips cracking.

And my shin hurts =/ need to rest my shin... prevent them from getting too much pressure. Really have to turn to swimming now I guess

gamers

2008-05-03T01:40:00.003+08:00

You know how hard it is to find a gamer who knows how to play their class and role properly in WoW? not easy. You know how hard it is to find a female gamer in WoW? not easy. What are the chances that people I meet in WoW are Singaporean? Slim as can be.

Today Daxi and I met one gamer who fit all the above description! A female malay gamer who lives in Singapore! How rare is that!

Freaking cool!

hmm maybe I'll try to get to know more about her ^_^

Cheers!

I still need a Photoshop CS 2 CD you know? Anyone ? please >.< *sob*

Labour Day

2008-05-01T21:02:00.002+08:00

The air conditioning in my house is finally back to its powerful standard. Before the repair man came over today, my family has suffered over a week of stuffy nights ( Even the weather is hot at night whats wrong with the world? Global warming? ) Now we can enjoy cool air at night !

Did nothing much today. Tanked an instance in WoW (nothing of any value dropped =/) Watched "What a Girl Want" (not like it helped me in understanding girls better) and had dinner with my family at Hougang mall.

Pretty boring day. I'm looking at the photos that Karling took during the MOS event. Geez I look terrible.

How was your labour day?

more people

2008-04-29T21:24:00.004+08:00

I like playing badminton with people around the same skill as me ^_^ for example Chin Wee! We played quite a few rounds this afternoon and the feeling of trading blows after blows and not stopping was really exhilarating. Chin Wee looked like an Ah Beng after we finished because he unbuttoned the top 3 buttons of his shirt ( he was wearing shirt and jeans. Didn't bring his sports gear ). We both played untill we were sweating like dogs haha.

Joined Zoe and her friends after badminton. By the time I reached there, I had to return the rackets we lent from Joesph back to him at his Club booth, they already finished playing one round of basketball. Aw crap =/ Well we went to the stadium and ran two rounds before going home. Fun fun!

Tomorrow sucks tho =/ no Gems and I have to stone around for like 3 freaking hours bleh!!!

Time to level UP World of warcraft TIME!!! (before Daxi says "FASTER LEVEL")
edit : CRAP I FORGOT TODAY IS SERVER DOWN TIME booo!!!!

God bless you (or which ever god u believe in)

"Do you want to be my friend?" - said by Jonah chin to his best friend

2008-04-27T00:12:00.005+08:00

The ex-library member bbq was really great. I get to see people like Hazel and Ivan and others whom I haven't even contacted in a long time. Its also good to see that some people are still together for such a long time.

Its good to have fun which makes me feel happy however sometimes I get this feeling of emptiness after the fun is over, like the feeling I am having now. It makes me feel sad that after such a long time of separation we are all back together and now everything is back to where it was. Also knowing that the next time that we will all meet might never come.

Sometimes I hate making friends. Friends fill up a space in your hearts and I know that someday everyone will leave me for their own future. I just hate the feeling of having that space torn out of my heart. That's why I try to keep my number of close friends small so that I don't have to feel sad so many times when they leave.

SO EMO! I hope this feeling blows over soon.

I love all of my friends ^_^ God bless you all

MoS (Made of shit?)

2008-04-26T00:49:00.010+08:00

MOS

by

OOPS

which

SUCKED

except the

DANCING

to an extent.

FREE DRINKS

that we did't take

AFTER ALL THAT

I still had fun because of my

FRIENDS!

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Ok show and tell

Free gift from OOPS

Contents : Badges, Paper clip, Kiss chocolate (I just at the golden one), Pen, Tissue paper, Note pad, Rubberband, Marble, RUBBER, candle and a light stick

Chocolate from Zoe. My mom and sis liked them. Me too Yum Rum & Rasin

Daxi's Cake from eariler this year ^_^ i forgot to post. Bite into bits of sand in my slice

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Woo tomorrow ex-Library gathering! Wonder how people changed

Run Jonah Run

2008-04-24T23:15:00.004+08:00

Ache all over and it feels good. Ran with Zoe at the gym on Tuesday and I managed to clock up 3km on the treadmill. My cousin taught me some stuff on bodybuilding. (not that I want to have UBER big muscles I don't want to look so nua)

Tuesday left me aching on Wednesday and today. I SOMEHOW(we all love somehow right DELWYN?) manage to run 3 rounds around the stadium. Before the run, Angus guides Chin Wee and I on some exercises. Boy were some of the exercises hard to do lol. Really enjoyed that work out.

Thanks Angus Chin Wee and Zoe for exercising with me ^_^ (I push myself more if there is competition)

Help notice :
ANYONE WHO HAS PHOTOSHOP CS2 OR BETTER PLEASE LEND IT TO ME I NEED TO MAKE SOME GRAPHICS ( I cannot find my own cd T_T so sad)

LOLIPOP TOMORROW who else is going?

2008-04-15T18:51:00.003+08:00

79 words

Speed test

Go beat my high score! I beat Karling's score of 60 woot! my mom got 52

BEAT ME!

no more ITP!!

2008-04-13T02:02:00.002+08:00

YES ITS FINALLY OVER

NO MORE CRAZY OLD MAN (my supervisor) CALLING ME AGAIN!

well at least he was kind enough to give me an A for the report and this is what he wrote for the comments word for word.

"Jonah has performed beyond expectation during the two months of ITP with our company. He has demonstrated good leadership among his peers and always complete his assignment before the deadline"

Hope everyone gets a nice report

p.s. I just got my fossil watch today woot! (THANK YOU Zoe for the kind offer on the watch) Kok Khang (Guo Jian) passed me the watch this afternoon. My first metal strap watch yea! I'll put a photo of it tomorrow, for now its time to sleep.. 2am oh dear. Hope Daxi goes to the ex-library gathering =/ go alone not so fun bleh!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NARU!!!!

2008-02-26T22:23:00.003+08:00

(was drawing this in msn but it could't send -.- anyway)

Wishing you happy-ness (intended spelling error) all the way from Singapore. Hope you have a fun birthday! ( i know this image seems very cheapo lol)

with love

Jonah

(werid format -.-)

Waiting for what?

2008-02-24T22:24:00.003+08:00

Those were just some of the pictures of my work place and that stack of papers were the stuff I printed on the first day! About 2000 worth of paper there LOL

I got bored so I made a er.. Paper box friend with 2 hair styles lol Oh and that guy is Guo Jian, my friend at ITP

Just been to the Singapore Airshow yesterday with Daxi and Del. Didn't felt like it was worth the 20 bucks to wait for a total of about 5 hours just to see the air show.

We missed the Black Knights performance but we were able to watch the Roulette's performance. Which was rather interesting.

Some of the photos I took with my camera phone ( my digital died halfway for no reason )

Joint Strike F-35

some cute UAV

Singapore's F-16

For fun ---

Thats how Daxi's hair looks like now ^^

Broken Jelly!

2008-02-16T12:55:00.002+08:00

NEWS BROADCAST---

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END OF NEWS BROADCAST---
Back to reality.
My Itp week has been mostly boring hmm =/ It was lucky to meet Guo Jian in my attachment as there was someone to accompany me to changi prison to work.
When I first heard that I will be attached to there and that the security level there is high, I was quite excited. However validating of our passes is taking longer than I would have liked.
We mostly copy stuff, edit diagrams, photocopy proposals, print documents and edit excel files.

Manage to sleep a few hours in work lol

Was pretty boring. Hope next week is going to be better!

THANKS DAXI FOR BUSING ME

Happy Lunar New Year!!

2008-02-07T00:35:00.001+08:00

Jeff Dunham

2008-02-05T00:15:00.000+08:00

just a little somthing to share quite funny ^^

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Sentosa

2008-02-04T17:15:00.000+08:00

Had my foot stepped on quite a few times 2 days ago. Played abit of beach volly ball then it started to rain and we had to move under a shelter where we ate Daxi's cake. Later we went down again and played monkey. I was being carried and thrown into the sea even tho I did not have any extra clothes =.= I mean seriously can't you guys let me stay dry?

Happy Birthday Daxi!

Please call me if you have anything to say ^^

broken body

2008-02-02T00:34:00.000+08:00

Batminton yesterday was intense! everyone played so well. (except Yew Loong cause he's new to the sport) We went shopping for food afterwards at Shop and Save and then to Thomas house to marinate the chicken(Chin Wee was squishing the chicken in a werid manner so I decided to help him out) and store the food. My fingers stank of garlic the whole of yesterday yuck.

Too tired to type anymore and since a picture paint a thousand words look below! (and how many words does a video show?)

Thomas hidden room!

Joseph with his smelly aching feet

Strip Darts!! ( we didn't play it in the end lol)

2 handed sword skill

Cookies and cream cheese cake with some nutty ice cream cake. I prefer the ice cream cake ^^

the 2 heros of the day!

After dinner .

Del's 1337 dragonballz skill.

Dog humping Zoe's leg.

This is what zoe would probly look like if someone beat the hell out of her.

I hope my liason office calls me soon if not I am so screwed!!

Off to bed. Hope I wake up refreshed tomorrow... else I think I will look like a zombie walking around Sentosa tomorrow.

Disappeared, disappointed

2008-01-28T22:28:00.000+08:00

Studying Servo tomorrow.
And they say leave the best for last, the hardest subject of all.

MCT was rather simple, we spent most of the time doing sample test paper. Was a rather easy paper if I should say so but a distinction is still very far away.

Pizza break, just before we study for AEF

Look its Thomas eating pizza.

You know getting stomach the day after eating so much chili with pizza isn't a very nice experience? Ask Thomas he knows how it feels like

AEF test was of moderate difficulty, luckily the theory questions were only worth 14 marks.

Math. Sigh. I could have done better. I know. Grrr.

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As friends we should help each other right? or are we all not friends? ^^
Answer : NO we should focus on ourselves first !
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Extra ---

This was my dinner two days ago. I was studying at the library and came back after my family left for dinner.

Loot Its over boiled Maggie noodles with cream of mushroom soup! Yea I can cook! (pre-made stuff.

My first POSTCARD

Look Naru even drew my family!

I look weird tho.. or maybe I really do look like that lol (left most person)
note to Naru : my dad doesn't have a mole beside his nose haha. Thank you for sending this post card. I'm going to stash it in my super secret treasure chest.

Ginger

2008-01-23T23:00:00.001+08:00

That was what Angus said when he checkmated Joseph.

Good thing I asked Chin wee to bring chinese chess over today. Providing much entertainment during our studies ^^

I didn't play very well. You can ask Joseph ^^ he beat me =P

New link added ---
http://play.chessvariants.org/coffeecc/index.php
You can now play chinese chess online!!!

heart of GOD

2008-01-20T21:15:00.000+08:00

When I went there, this girl from Chin wee's cell group asked " Never seen you before, whats your name?" We exchanged names (her name was XinLing if I remember correctly -.-) and shook hands and smiled and went to talk to her friend.

Chin wee asked "How come I come first day she didn't talk to me". LOL. I hope you have a better chance next time.

The music style is more like hardcore rock (everything was like too loud and some songs were fast)compared to City Harvest's more relaxed version of rock.

Every thing was louder or maybe its because the area was smaller and the stage closer. Anyway there was electric, bass (wish I can play like those 2 ) and normal guitars and the drummer was really whacking those drums. Floor was literally shaking due to the enormous amount jumping done by everyone. Didn't notice Chin wee jumping tho and I didn't feel like jumping then, I mean seriously we are on the 22Th floor of a building and the floor might collapse! Even the lighting attached to the celling was shaking vibrantly looking like its about to fall at any moment.

Still had great fun tho

Don't say I didn't go to your church Chin wee
( I ditched him once to watch a movie when we were on the way to his church after lan.)

Hoho mugging time!
( no idea why its called mugging =.= I thought getting mugged means "I got robbed" maybe its to say we got robbed of our time. Who knows?)

own-ed

2008-01-17T00:55:00.000+08:00

*a godly voice shouting "OWNAGE" from my screen*

Yea we are being owned. Nothing odd if your whole team did't play dota for quite an extensive period of time but being owned doesn't give you the satisfaction as compared to owning people.

Exams coming still play =X

tomorrow time to study MCT!!! Lets do our best everyone.

Side note ---
anyone have the granado espada full installer client of version 2.4 perferbally if not the eariler version is also good ^^

Dream ---
I also dreamt that my sister broke up with her boyfriend and I went to comfort him ( Not really somthing I would do, not really good at that kind of thing but heck). Now have you ever wondered if your dreams you have when you are asleep will come true? Is it a peak into our future? or an alternate dimension =P

dumb dumb bell

2008-01-15T16:53:00.000+08:00

Guess whats that?

My new dumbbell wearing a sock( so dumb =.=). I cut off one end of my sock and put it over my dumbbell because the PVC plastic covering is attracting too much dust and it feels sticky on my hand(yuck).

Exams around the corner >.<

Time to work out.

Brrrrrr

2008-01-11T23:23:00.000+08:00

"Woooohoo! ohhhh!" nice crash but it didn't break ^^

We managed to fly out plane for about 5 seconds! The video above was one of the other not so successful flight because there wasn't so much power left in the battery ( went to the stadium to charge our battery after a few flight ). Felt that we did much better this week and I am sure now we have impressed Danny in some way or another. Even tho Danny only saw the final product of our planes, I saw and know how much effort other people put into their planes.

Noticeable people who put in the most effort. (those people I see in the lab only =P sorry if I miss anyone out)

Joseph

Matthew

Thomas

Yew Zhen and Wei Chang

Delwyn

Cheers to those who tried so hard. Bless you all.

Detour ---

Went to ESPRIT with Del and Zoe today (Chin Wee YOU pang seh ME and DEL YOU will DIE!!! ). Got a low rise jeans at a cool price of $59.90 u.p. $129.90 and a shirt at a discounted rate of 40%

Thanks Zoe for bringing us there.

(Angus -.- the ESPRIT near your workplace is like peanuts compared to the outlet at centre point. You should come here next time)

Worrying is a waste of time and energy. Let go is best tho not easy. ~ Jonah

Good Night

ITP

2008-01-09T22:49:00.000+08:00

I'm posted to CNA! CHANNEL NEWS ASIA?

Naw. CNA group LTD heres their website http://www.cna.com.sg/index.html ... I wonder why the website is half filled with Chinese text, I hope the staff there don't communicate in Chinese so much since everyone knows I'm and English speaking person.

I'm suppose to report to Ms Josephine Lim on the 11th of February 8.30am and I'm only paid $440 per month unlike some of my friends who get $500. However I'm still very excited to be working again and this time in a more proper job unlike my first working experience working at the IT fair selling NEC laptops from 9am to 11pm 4 days in a row, putting me in nightmares of selling more laptops in my sleep ( which does not really make me feel engerized when I wake up the next morning ) Hmm wonder if i have to wake up eariler than usual. Its going to be 2 months and I really hope she is a nice person to get along with ( also that it will be easier to score more points ^^ not that I'm a bad person )

Sigh. 2 Lab tests tomorrow, Servo and AEF. I really hope I get the AB amplifier question tomorrow cause it seems easier.

Gotta study now cya around

Body

2008-01-08T00:06:00.000+08:00

Took me about 5hours to revamp this standard template blog skin into one which I can call my own. It always feels great after I finish one of my mini-projects, the feeling of satisfaction ^^

Feels like my nose is getting clearer. I hope this lasts.

I can't believe I manage to misplace my laptop today and also just before my OOP (object oriented programming) test which I DO need my laptop to take part. Luckly Hamdi took my laptop when I left it at the bench. I better kick this habit of losing stuff and learn from Yew Loong and check the place everytime before I leave.

Anyway the OOP and MCT lab test today was like a breeze. Hope everyone does well and get good grades.

Hope I get to have dreams tonight.
Nite all

Freeze

2008-01-06T03:38:00.000+08:00

Our plane managed to fly vertically up and flip back during the test run last friday, it was disappointing that we did't get to achieve the kind of real take off we did the night before. In addition, we snapped a part of the wing during test flight. As if breaking the wing that night before wasen't enough. I really hope we managed to impress Danny enough to get good grades cause I'm going to be really frustrated if all this effort only got us peanuts.

Nose is still block tho. Wished I was having "running nose" instead.

My sis is having problems at school. It seems like the class she was streamed to in sec5 contained all of the classmates she did not get along well in her eariler years in secondary school. Most of her friends either retained or went to ITE. Hope she can settle down well and hope that it might not affect her studies much.

Kinda pissed yesterday as the Complete Sims2 that I "bought" for 4 days did't work properly as my computer keep freezing at random points casuing me to press the power button to reset the computer.

This morning was worse.
I turned on my computer and after right- clicking a tray icon to close my computer freezed, which forcing me to reset my computer countless times. I am currently writing this post
on a notepad and saving often because I don't want my computer to freeze while I am typing in blogger.com and I did't save the post.

Am running a Northon 360 disk fragm on my C drive at this moment and I hope this is only a software problem, a hardware problem means I have to persuade my dad to get me a new com or repair this crappy one again sigh. Which mean I might not be able to get some fincial help from him in my driving licence.

Don't think I'm going to appear in MSN often now due to this problem.

Don't think i have time to change this lousy template any time soon.

Hope this clears up tomorrow.cheers

white christmas

2008-01-02T08:20:00.000+08:00

It was Christmas day and the whole NAC guild was there walking around in a music store with countless rows of CD shelves. A small white flake gracefully fall to the ground, moments later several other flakes started to fall.

"Is it snowing?" asked Rachel

"Yea I think so and in-doors too" I said as I inspected one of the small flake.

It was pure white and was cold to my hand.

As we gasp at this miracle, the floor was quickly covered in a coat of pure white and not a trace of the black tiles could be seen.

Naru kneeled down and packed some snow in her hand

She stood up and said "Why don't we have a snowball fight"

The moment her sentence ended, her snowball went straight for Daxi's face which he lucky dodged.

I quickly ran off in a random direction hoping not to be targeted by anyone

I ducked at a corner and started making a snowball. The moment I stood up, someone grabbed my shoulder and pushed me on the floor. Lucky the snow cushioned my fall. Towering over me was Daxi with his hand raised, a snowball in his hand. I instinctively threw my snowball at him. I heard the snowball smack him as I scrambled to my feets and ran off.

I grabbed a snowball and started stalking the rows of CD shelves for any unsuspecting targets. I spotted Cal's back quickly threw my snowball at him. He turned around and spotted me, I ran the moment he saw me. Zig-zaging through the shelves hoping to lose him but I couldn't seem to lose Cal.

A hard smack on my back as the snowball Cal threw hit me. I twisted around to look for him but he was already gone.

"Peace" said a voice behind me.

It was Daxi looking rather sad.

Probably because I threw a snowball at him and he felt betrayed.

"Lets go out of the store and wait for them to finish this" he said as he started walking.

Fifteen minutes later, everyone had already gathered outside panting and their clothed covered in snow. We heard some music to the left and everyone started running towards that direction to see what it was about. Everyone ran off before me as I stood there alone. Then a lady wearing a white shirt and jeans ran up to me and took my hand. She smiled the sweetest smile to me and pulled me along as she ran towards the music.

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awake....MORNING.

Well end of my dream that left me with sort of a smile in the morning. Sending Naru off at the airport was most probably the reason why I dreamt of NAC. After awhile I thought about why Daxi why looking sad in my dream, must have been because he was sad that Naru left that day and not because I hit him in my dream.

Sigh so sad that Naru have to leave.. but well its for her future. Its a must.

ALL THE BEST WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD. DON'T CATCH A FLU THERE!

That sweet lady in my dream, I only saw her face in a friend's photo. Now how often do strangers appear in your dream lol!

This is the 5th time I'm going to Chinatown with Delwyn to buy parts for plane #4 of the stupid RC airplane project. Spending more money again! We worked like cows in the afternoon and I accidentally cut my finger again sigh its the second time! Anyway our efforts paid off. Our plane was able to take off off.. or sort of haha it kinda took off like a rocket for a few seconds.

Well I'm still pleased with it even tho I think we were the group that spent the most hours doing this project.. the first to arrive the last to leave... =)

Tiring day

This is our plane

Something my sis bought for me on Christmas

LAVA LAMP and its green woo!

ache

2007-12-30T02:55:00.000+08:00

Woah.. woke at 6 this morning because I was freezing. I checked the aircon remote and found that it was 23 degree! Most of you might think that 23 degree is still warm but in my small room 28-29 degree is cool enough for me. My cousin who stayed over must have put the temperature that cold( he already left at 5.30 to attend his boys brigade parade) Along with feeling cold , I woke up with aches all over my body and my nose was blocked. Untill now I still feel that aching feeling which really makes me feel like crap.

My mind was still thinking even tho I was asleep. I dreamt about making plans and construction of a RC aircraft. This was mainly due to the non-stop building of that stupid RC aircraft in the past few days which did not want to take off hence we have to make the plane a few time. The dream that really drained me of my strength and the freezing temperature of my room contributed to this nearly feverishly feeling I had for the whole day.

When I found out I had this aching feeling the moment I woke up, I quickly took my medicine, keep blowing my nose and just layed around my bed untill around 9 when I tried to go to sleep but only managed to lie around untill it was lunch time. After lunch, I slept through the whole afternoon, took my dinner and just sat around either infront of my computer or TV.

Really a wasted and tiring day. Hope everyone stays healthy.

Test

2007-12-23T22:48:00.000+08:00

Hey there its the start of a new blog again! hmm might take some time for me to pick a custom template so bear with this lame crap for now ^^

ciaoz