Singaporean oil spill

There was an accident yesterday, off the coast of Singapore - involving a tanker and a bulk carrier. I guess that's in line with international trends... Totally copied from the Gulf of Mexico's sinking of the DEEPWATER HORIZON

Anyhow, according to Bloomberg -

"May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore is stepping up efforts to contain an oil slick that reached its shores a day after a tanker, owned by a unit of MISC Bhd., collided with a bulk carrier near the world’s busiest container port.

“Patches” of oil have affected part of the coastline between Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal and Changi Naval Base and between a sailing club and a golf resort, the Maritime and Port Authority said today. The MT Bunga Kelana 3, owned by AET Tanker Holdings Sdn., collided with the bulk carrier MV Waily 13 kilometers (8 miles) southeast of Changi East yesterday."

Stepping up efforts. I didnt see much effort by the local authorities, Whatever they were doing must have been really far out at sea! Well, who am I to say. Whatever it is, I know there's some things keeping me from windsurfing, and I know that for the forseeable future, I am not taking my iSonic out... Back to my old board, till the water clears up a little.

My experience with the iSonic 150

It looked rather promising today, and I decided to take my iSonic out for a spin! HOWEVER, though I was using my 11m sail, the wind had to be a bitch! I was planing for probably close to a whole minute out there, and it was a right pain in the ass trying to keep the nose of the iSonic150 out of the water in marginal conditions! For some reason, going outshore was fine, I was on my merry little way, but coming back, I actually nosedived twice into the water! The nose sank into the back of a wave, and just kept going deeper! I was already watching out for the nose sinking and diving, and still, it was nosediving!

Well, I am hoping for slightly better winds tomorrow, and then, from the recommended settings, I am going to drag the mast base as far back as it'll go, and see how that goes! OR, if the wind is going to be kind so that I dont need to slog my way around, and actually let me get onto a plane, the recommended setting would stay.

I have to say though, (though still baseless with my limited amount of planing time on that board) that the iSonic feels slippery over the surface of the water! It seemed hell a lot faster than my formula!

Fine, here's my sail...

My 11m severne overdrive sail, and all thanks goes out to my darling Clarice, for being so patient and waiting for me to windsurf, and taking these photos! Oh and these are taken on a particularly sad day, where even a formula cant do windsurfing justice!

My new toy!

I just got my new toy, but I didnt take it out today cuz the wind was kinda sad! But still enough for my formula board and 11m sail - thank goodness.

Whatever the case, I do hope that the south westerly winds keep up, and get a tad stronger! Here are the pics! iSonic 150!!! Hell yeah!

iSonic 150!

I am going to go out windsurfing on my iSonic 150 today! Wind permitting of course, Totally stoked! With my new 11m Severne Overdrive sail and iSonic, lets see how that combination goes! Pics will be up real soon, so stay tuned!

Biere

I was reading about cheapest beer in Singapore, and me being me, I had to try it out! I took a drive, and got a carton, and believe me, I'd stick to Breda. This is really a revelation, on how bad beer can really get! Really tastes odd, to say the least.

Why I'd love to work with a company like facebook

Over the past 3 years, it comes as no big surprise that I took the sane route and got myself stuck in a university, and had to endure a dreadful mirage of crap that it dished out to me. Of late though, after exams and all, with a little bit more time in my hands to finally decompress a tad, I've been thinking. I had a dream, we all did. How many people out there would positively say in my face that when they were young, they wanted to be stuck in a cubicle waiting for the end of work everyday? That cant be true eh?

Of course, we wanted to be firemen and policemen and the sort, but as we "mature"/"regress" I suppose something went wrong! Not that that's a bad thing of course, I doubt there are that many fires or kitties stuck in trees to warrant an insanely large fire-fighting force, and honestly, I dont like the fuzz. Never did.

So, back to why I wanna work with a company like facebook. I had a dream, a long time ago, to work with a company, marketing of course ( What else can I do), but not in a firm like the ones I used to work in, but rather, a firm that would really challenge me, doing real marketing, and not pseudo marketing that is merged with mundane nonsense like technical sales! I do think that doing something for a company that has growth and which would allow me to interact with people and the things I like doing would be awesome! Planning cool marketing events and socializing and the sort, would be a real dream!

Oh well, now the only thing left to do is to see if any company would trust a guy without a marketing degree to know what appeals to the commoner. Well, not any company, only ones like facebook.

Fast food!

Check its! While trawling the internet like how I always do, lookie at what I found!

What am I to do?

Well, I suppose that I am at another junction in my life, where I need to decide what I wanna do with my life!

I am sure that most people are thinking the same thing as me, no matter where or what they are doing! I used to work for a few years before going back to school, and yet, truthfully, I haven't yet been fortunate enough to be able to get a job which gave me fulfillment! What is there in a job that would give me a sense of excitement and passion for what I am doing? I feel lost.

Oh well, not that there is any shortage of offers for what I can and want to do, but there just isn't anything that is even remotely challenging and exciting! I was looking around at what my friends around me are doing, and honestly, they are in cubicles, waiting to go home! True, there is a lot more shit that happens between the morning coffee and clock-out time, but what's the difference? Stress, without much fulfillment! Alright, perhaps some people do like chilling out in the office not doing much, but for me, I'd really rather be at home / at the beach!

So well there, this is what's going through my mind, not that I have any solution to that, but if I do, You'd be the first to know. Okay, perhaps not the first, but when I do update this, you'd know!

Cheerio!

Impressive Google Chrome!!!

I love the part with the potato gun!

Is it really that fast? Is google chrome really faster than Firefox? I am still stuck on Flock (the browser with an integrated RSS reader / youtube video stream / facebook status updates and lots more - but the above is all I use) but this video looks really impressive! HOWEVER, what's stopping google from having a direct fiber optic cable to the various servers for the pages needed?

whatever the case... here goes...

Microsoft over apple anyday!!!

And I'd give terminator a coin too! Heck, I'd let him recharge from my wall socket if need be!

McDonald's

Perhaps what's better would be to name it the half pound burger? Yes, we all know that 2 x(1/4) = 1/2!!!



Ooh, and on top of that, I came across this ad for Heart Attack burgers! I would love to have a joint like this, so that I can fatten all my friends!!!

iPad

I dont get it. how issit that after the iPad launch, everyone seems to be getting one to shread/melt/stick into a blender... I find it just ridiculous! Of course it'll work! Poorly!!!

Don't you think that these dudes are just stupidly dishing out moolah to bump up viewership?

New iPad Test - Will It Shred? from FUEL TV on Vimeo.

Where has creativity gone?

With a lot I have seen on TED talks and so on, I have now this real curiosity into the creativity that children, unspoiled by various education systems have. I think that perhaps the dude is right! Anyhow, two really interesting videos, that must be watched! (the first is important. The second is amusing!



And the cool lego video... (I SAID THE TOP ONE'S THE ONE YOU NEED TO WATCH!!!)

Lego "CL!CK" from a52 on Vimeo.

O - Overdriving me!

Well, Fluid Dynamics is finally over! I am really just hoping that I passed, cos I really need to get out of school as soon as I can! I dont like it, it doesnt like me any more, and we're bickering most of the time!

Anyhow, after not sleeping for a long time, I decided to head down to the beach and fiddle with my new sail! Never did use such a big sail ever, and once I got to the beach(though it was easily 15 knots) I decided that given the time of the year, the wind would die, and I'd be bored with my 8.5sqm north sail and I'd have to come back... BUT, mostly just because I wanted to fiddle with my new sail. So in all my intellect, I went out on the 11, and gosh, the boom was unnaturally high(even at it's lowest setting), the harness lines were too far forward (from my 8.5), and that sail in 15 knot winds packs not a punch, but more like a hard goal scoring kick in the butt!!! (especially when harness lines are still at the wrong place and killing my back hand)

So, after slowly shifting my harness lines, it was awesome! I love the feeling of planing through lulls in the wind! Actually, doesnt even feel like there were lulls with that sail, though there were times I knew I would most definitely have dropped outta a plane on my 8.5, this thing just kept going!

Haha, guess it's plain to see, where my interests lie, and considering it's 2 lines about schoolwork, no surprise!

AND, here it is!