Got to the SP workshop today and the stuff I had left overnight had done. 

I helped my gal to register her GEMs today. With one click, she was in the class that we agreed on taking. I was happy for her, but I still have that French GEMs and I could only wait to change it on this coming Thursay. Then, out of nowhere, SP sent me a message on my hand phone, saying 'Due to system bug, you were not able to register a GEM yesterday. you can now go online to register GEM between 9pm-7am next morning'. With this, I have a time slot for today at 9pm to register a GEM, since in the message is says I have not registered in one.

Anyways, Thierry came soon after. Gabriel and I asked him if the CNC machine can cut Corian. Thierry say it could take a very long time to do so and had not tried using that material before. So, I told Gabriel about the MM side. They have huge CNC machines to do stuff. At around 1+, I brought him there.

We asked the technicians there about us wanting to use the machine, but they themselves do not know how to use it. Why? They are new machines. Just bought. So, nobody knows how to operate it yet.

So, we head down to NP. Gabriel seem to know the technician there. He is Mr Tan. This guy is the most hip technician that I had ever met. He gladly help us to cut the piece of Corian. 

I believe that this machine behind him is the best. It cuts Corian about five times faster then the Charly Robot in SP cuts wood. I could hardly believe at the speed that this machine is going. Just imagine, the Corian material is much much harder then wood, this machine is about more than two times smaller than Charly Robot. It is able to cut Corian like a knife cutting butter. The Charly Robot is like the opposite, like butter cutting knife. hehe..

Then again, the technician, Mr Tan, is an extremely helpful guy. 

So, we got back at 4.30pm after visiting NUS for awhile. We set the materials and the Mayka model to be cutting the next piece of wood. By then it was 5.30pm. Hong Guan is waiting for us to leave as the workshop closes at 5pm. I asked him for 5 minutes if he could help set up the CNC machine to be used overnight, as I could collect it the next day. He simply said no. I mean, it would be more efficient if we left the workshop with the slow machine running overnight rather than wasting daylight on it. Just 5 minutes, and a NO! 

A day was wasted. 4 working days left to Milan. I am not sure if the product can make it on time. I am very disappointed with SP. NP has great technicians and even greater machines, but SP? Well, design in SP is still an infant school, so there are still lots more to improve on.

About GEMs, I logged on to SAS today with my heart beating rapidly. The page loading of my laptop took such a long time, and I was afraid that I could not get the GEMs I wanted. I saw that there are 4 seats left. I took them, but I had forgot to drop the previous GEMs I had took before. So, all that canceling, processing and researching for the GEMs I wanted took such a long time. But, in the end, I got it. At least an upside for my day. Yey!