Episode: cheerless
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

School was suppose to be from 8am to 10am. It was LEGO time again. This time, we had to program the robot to move within a box. At first it was slightly difficult, but in the end it turned out to be just fine. After that head back to the studio and did some work. My goodness, work does not seem to end. My lecturer was planning to ask the whole class out today. But I was still unsure if I have time to go. My group members were going, so since I cannot do anything without them, I just came along.

Searching the place was slightly difficult, but I finally got to the place with Zhai Wei's help.


My whole class was already there, waiting.

After some time, the tour started. You cannot start the tour without the tour guide. As he has the controls to the effects of the place.

We entered the sliding up door, and into this area. Everybody was so keen at taking pictures that the tour guide seems to be pissed off.

Next, the cool part was that we were apart of a story. A story that we all seems to relate. A video of a train arriving was actually projected to the glass doors, giving a train arriving feel. We stood behind the yellow line and waited for the doors to open.


We stepped into the next exhibition. I think we can spend a lot of our time there, but the tour has to go on. It was really fun being the passengers and the drivers of those old tranportation modes in Singapore.


As we got to the other room, the other side of the turning doors were another presentation board. I feel that this was great, as it really fully utilize the space given.

Some other interesting things. These are the taxi driver license in the olden times, but not used anymore.

This was the one that I was looking forward to knowing. As you can see there are many different kinds of license plates for vehicles in Singapore.
The first three are those usual ones.
The red ones are weekend cars.
The orange ones are for those vehicles carrying toxic goods.
The green one are for vehicles found at Pulau Ubin.
The red and yellow are for those vehicles within a company, and to be driven inside the company's compound.
Blue and yellow license plate are for those European vehicles test driving around Singapore before going into sales.
The red and green are for vehicles that are of more that 25 years old. These vehicles are not meant to be on the roads more that around 35 times per year. As the LTA does not want these vehicles to break down and cause unnecessary traffic jams.

This was another interesting part. As the screen slides, it really slides off to the next slide.



This is the map of Singapore. If you were there, you can see a lot of dots. Those dots indicates the number of bus stops there are in Singapore.

Off to the next room. We got to seat on F1 seats and then viewed an interactive video. Before it begins the room was lighted red.

These were the buttons to press from when questions are asked. Those who pressed the buttons a lot of times, see me tomorrow. I want to give them detention. Haha.

The screen was huge, just like in the cinema. However, the partition lines at the screens destroys it.

Next, heading on to the future of transport in Singapore. We were given a futuristic glimpse of how the LTA would be.

There was this detailed map on one of the few touch screens there. At first I was looking for my house, but then, I can even search areas outside Singapore. That is cool.

See these lines? Well, they are actually optical illusions. As we walk, we can see something moving on the other side. It was nice, but when everybody want to see it, it turns into a bad experience. Ying Ying was shaking her head, and accidentally hit mine. Though it was painful, it did not hurt me that much, as I am used to getting balls hitting my head.

Get a view of this. Yup, most of the class went there. It was fun.

Then we head down to the National Library to view the Tan Kah Kee exhibition. Along the way, many of us disappeared, as most were not interested to go there.

We were not to take pictures there, but I manage to get one with Singapore's forefathers. One of them is wearing the same specs as mine. Hehe.

That was the end of the exhibitions. We then head off to Raffles City mall for some lunch. They all went in this Japanese food court. It was not Halal, so I did not went in. I walked around for a while. But soon, they called me to just sit around the place, as we need to discuss about work there.

During that time, I went in this sweets shop. Two things caught my attention. One, was the jelly beans. I really like jelly beans!

While the other was this massive Toblerone chocolates. They were very big. I know that the picture does not show so, but I assure you that it was huge. One of those cost $18.

So, I joined the rest at Shokudo.

I just sat there.


While they grabbed their foods.


I was hungry, so after they finish eating, Ivan and Glenn accompanied me to Long John Sliver's to eat. Then, I went home. I was really tired. The huge books that Ivan gave me, left my right hand weak. Got home around 7+. When I was drawing out my work, I can feel that my hand was tired. Alright, I got work to do. All these work had left me cheerless. I don't think I have the mood to be cheerful at school tomorrow.


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Aidie blogged @ 8:07 AM

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