10/09: ICES Open House & NJRC Prelims
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Haha i've got a sudden urge to type this when i should be mugging...
[ICES Open House]
Well I reported to Sci Ctr directly in the morning instead of going to school then coming back up to Sci Ctr...
Ended up Qing Hua got scolded by Mrs Lee back in school, cse he called me then i said i'll be at Mac in half an hour's time (i wna go see NJRC mah), then Mrs Lee thought I haven't reach Sci Ctr (while all of them are still in school =.=) and flamed QH for not asking me to hurry to Sci Ctr asap. =.= SORRY QING HUA!! :X :XSo after that when everyone came via school bus we lagged there for some time, courtesy of the oh-so-efficient Sci Ctr.
Meanwhile we were told that no cams allowed, gahh i didn't expect Jurong Island (JI) to be such a high "secretive" area...
Finally some Sci Ctr guy came, and we boarded their bus to JI, cleared Checkpoint to get our sticker passes...
Heh JI is so cool, in terms of how it was actually set up and located away from main island, and yet with such complete infrastructure. :D
So reach there, walked arnd their exhibition panels, then went to ICES.
Haha we are apparently all attracted to the sight of food when we saw a mini-buffet table. -winkswinks- :D
"We're breeding 贪吃鬼..." - Mrs Lee -applause-
So at ICES hall we listened to a ppt by a prof, then went to a booth behind the hall.
Liquid nitrogen ice-cream! :D
Hahaha that guy made a few bowls of it, using different cereals each time. :D
It's very crunchy, not those industrial creamy type - we were all attracted to the booth having a few cups per person. :D
Unfortunately liq. N
2 isn't sold in the market for safety reasons. =.=
Then thr's actually another booth that we didn't wander arnd for long since we were stuck at th ice-cream booth, it was about some cell that produces electricity.
After the fun it was time to tour the facilities, after wearing our lab coats and safety goggles.
OMG their safety goggles is totally transparent, see-through!
Their lab coats also very nice lorh, very white and we all look so professional after putting them on. XD
So then tour arnd the place, see the equipments....
AND WE SAW THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE ACTUALLY WANTED TO USE FOR OUR CID PW (but the school didn't have it) :X :X -green with envy-
Saw this particular equipment (dno for what alr), then the metal pipes inside still have Teflon coating seh, very smooth interior and expensive too...
But well i suppose money's not an issue to them yeah? ;P
Then after the tour it was time for the Refreshments (as they call it; ie. lunch):
虾胶, 烧卖, mini-choco muffin and spring rolls :D
So after that boarded the bus back to Science Centre...
[NJRC Prelims]
After that reached at arnd 5 and managed to see the teams doing Run 2.
The audience seats were kind of.. empty, like less than one-third filled.
It's a new experience though, watching the runs from the outside of the fence rather than on the inside... D:
Heh the emcee even named one of RV's robots as "terrorists" because of the imba ball mechanism. :D :D
After which the day ended and a few of us went to JP Pepper Lunch for dinner (we had Justin there too! :D)
So yeah, the end, nth to write about le :O
{ 8:08 pm }
