Cap score

Now I've just gotten back from Taiwan, I've just checked my results and

Module Code	Module Title	Grade
ES1301	English For Academic Purposes (Science)	B-
MA1506	Mathematics II	A-
PC1143	Physics III	A
PC1144	Physics IV	A
PC2130	Quantum Mechanics 1	A
SP2171	Discovering Science	B+
UIT2203	Digital Information Systems & Society	A
USS2105	University Scholars Seminar	IP

CAP: 4.59

it's just a bit disappointing on the maths part, but otherwise, I'm happy with the results.

Day 12

Finally, day 12, still healthy but almost sick and going to Buddha Light's Mountain tomorrow. 3 more days and I'm over drafting my money. need to exchange more money later on. Now got to go.

Day 9

Day 9 into the Buddhism in Asia trip, I'm using the Internet for the 3rd time. A bit regret that I didn't see Ruby lin in Taiwan. I mean her ads, publications, books and shows. Well anyway, this will be my last night in Linkworld hotel. and I'm going to go to Buddha Light University tomorrow, followed by Tzu Chi, and then Buddha Light Mountain. It's been a nice experience on Dharma Drum Mountain today and yesterday, well we returned to the hotel at night too. Ok I lived for less than a day as a forest monk in thailand and I like it but maybe I should do it for longer before deciding whether I should be a forest monk. Anyway there's 6 whole more days on this journey in Taiwan and lots of people has gotten sick. I'm hope I'll not be.

Bangkok

Currently I'm in Bangkok's airport, waiting for the plane to the east part of thailand. I did said that I should not be online for these few days, but as it happens, there is a free internet access here in the waiting room. so I checked my mail and decided to post this as a memorial and prove that I've been here.

Update up to now

Ok the last time I talked about my life was from the Fatal Deviation of OnePiece and Warcraft, funny that I don't feel the urge to play or watch Bleach now. Ok, so I'll brief on my exams first, I think I did badly at Maths, or not as good I think I should be, the two level 1 physics were nice and the Quantum Mechanics (level 2) is the easiest exam I had in comparison with the others.

Anyway I've just finished my USS term paper in 3 hours last night, causing me to woke up at 12p.m. and late for the temple tour today. Oh ya, I should continue from after my exams, I 've gone back to pack up my stuffs on that very day as my parents and grandparents come down to singapore to help me move out of the room in PGP. After that, the very next day we go back to Malacca and then to Petaling Jaya (PJ).

There I finished 20 episodes of Heroes season 3, saw my sis's boyfriend for the first time, joined in the wesak procession of PJ, buy some stuffs, and eat free food! But the trip in Malaysia is not long as I have to return to Singapore for various reasons.

From 11th may, just after alighting from the buses that got me here, I have to go to SPS to park my luggage, then PGP to take a number to return my transponder (key) and then at 3p.m., join the Buddhism in Asia meeting that started on 1p.m. After that, it's close to 6p.m. and I just have time to return the transponder before coming to SPS to repack the things I got from USP. Then it's a 1hour plus journey to Woodlands as I go to my uncle's place to sleep. I reached at 9p.m. and then slept at 4+ a.m. The next day, I was late for my group meeting, making Hariom, Minh and Weiding quite angry. But it's quite lucky that the physics department prepared food for us and then we get to see Prof. Edward Teo to finalise my group's proposal for SP2172, Investigating Science.

So for the Physics Open day, I'll join the Physics Society in overseeing the Competition for Cartesian Diver on the 4th-5th and 8th-9th June. For our SPS group, we'll do the self-consistency particle in Closed Timelike Geodesics in Tipler's Cylinder under Prof. Edward Teo and Minh. And for the Buddhism in Asia (BIA) Group, I'm the designer and logistic person for the team. If that doesn't sound busy enough for you, I had to go for another hour to go back to Woodlands.

On the 13th May, I had to wake up early to go to NUS and start the first day of the BIA leg in Singapore. We've invited venerable Bodhi and venerable Chuan Zhen to talk about Buddhist research and Buddhist College. Then as the day moves on, we visited Singapore Buddhist Federation and Tzu Chi Singapore. I am inspired deeply by Tzu Chi's activity and want to join them in the future. During the trip, I've also learned that most of my teammates has quite little idea of what Buddhism is and most are free thinkers. On the night, I had to finish my term paper for USS and thus the late sleeping time and missed the visit to the thai temple in Singapore and the free lunch by Kong Meng San temple. But I managed to go to Kong Meng San in 50 minutes and joined them in the remaining 1 hour of the trip for the day until 3:40p.m. then it's straight to SPS and the BBQ.

The BBQ that we had just now was very fun, althought at first I complained of insufficient food, however, as the mass of people move back to SPS room, I and a few others get to eat and cook the remaining food for some time and got full there. Then we moved back the remaining food and materials here and now I've updated my life correct to within 2 hours. And I shall stop writing now.

PS: oh ya, the schedule for the BIA is that I'll be flying to Thailand on the 16th May 6a.m., to Taiwan on the 22nd May, and back to Singapore on the 30th May 11:45p.m. . and since I am not planning to bring my laptop to the trip, it'll be a while before I update my blog again. And Since my physics people need me, I don't think I'll be able to go back to Malaysia after 30th May to 4th June. So I'll be studying, preparing for the physics enrichment camp and doing my paper for BIA during this time. But now, I'll finish the rest of the season 3 heroes.

One Piece

This semester I have catched up with the latest episode of One Piece. From the negligible first few episodes, all the way to episode 398. That's about 400 episodes long!

Now I'm following the movies.

Nanosuit superhumans

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are new fields with various promises and big impacts to be made upon the society. Other than the normal mundane nanosized robots that can self replicate and carbon nanotubes, the possibility of integrating them into an exoskeleton suit of human size and shape is intriguing and will have various impacts on the society as a whole.
In the future, a device can be worn as a belt and on activation, small nanobots will come out of the device to create a suit that covers the user’s body with specialised carbon nanotubes. This suit can be bullet proof, light and be equipped with weapons. In comparison with the world of fiction, it is the nano version of Iron Man! In short, nanotechnology allows the technical possibility of Superhumans to exist in our world. These superhumans can be a one man tank, with the strength to carry heavy things as the exoskeleton allows it, high energy lasers that can be placed on the arms, jets that be placed at the bottom of the shoes, and anything else that Iron man can do.
If the suit is in the hands of the “right” people, superheroes can easily exist in this world. However, the impact of the existence of Nano Iron-man in the world may be varied. The world might explode in laughter at the person with the nanosuit acting like a superhero. The other possible response is that the world takes the concept of superhero seriously. From this point on, we only have the comics to guide us. And almost all the comics treat the coming of Superheroes as someone to respect and to hail as some saviour. However, the opposite may be true. Superpowers like America may be worried that Superhumans harbour too much power that it would threaten the superhuman to stop and hand over the suit.
Other than having people with “righteousness” having the suit, there can be greedy and ambitious people that can get a hold on this much power. These are the supervillians in the comic books. These people can leave a very negative impression on nanotechnology and possibly trigger wars like the war on terrorism. In this scenario, if a superhero comes and successfully save the day from the supervillian, then people who laugh at the notion of superhero may start to take them seriously. Most probably a team of supercops will be formed and controlled by a certain country. This can also trigger the possession of the suits by countries and start the whole arms race again, only this time; it is to collect the biggest army of Supersoldiers.
Finally, if the suit is available commercially without the weapons, it can be the ultimate protection suit, transforming the human race to a race of superhumans. The function of cops and soldiers are reduced, and murder cases become rare.
In conclusion, the possibilities allowed by nanotechnology in this form are huge and may generate many possible responses from the society.

Investigation of the existance of closed timelike curves and the feasibility of time travel

An Investigation of the Existence of Closed Timelike Curves and the Feasibility of Time Travel

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Research closed timelike curv time travel


by Han Weiding, Jani Hariom Kirit, Ng Xin Zhao for the SP2171 Discovering Science SPS module.

Fatal Deviation: Bleach versus OnePiece

Let's see, I've been playing this game from Sunday, when I got it from garena to... monay morning, then slept till monday night. After dinner, I and a few friends played for 11 hours straight till the morning, and I managed to stay up until the night watching OnePiece (currently at episode 325, started from less than 10 episode from the start of this sem) and fell asleep until wednesday. And i played more than I studied on Wednesday even in SPS room. Now I'm really need to curb this fatal Deviation as I got to prepare for 4 of my exams. The reading week has gone until Thursday. I'll catch up on the time I wasted playing!

How best to make the prospect of nuclear power in Southeast Asia come true

“Prospects of Nuclear Power in Southeast Asia” does include both nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. However, the speaker only concentrated on nuclear fission, ignoring nuclear fusion. The speaker highlighted various problems associated with the use of nuclear fission reactors, but I believe that all these problems can be dispelled with the use of nuclear fusion reactors.
The first problem is that of nuclear waste disposal. Nuclear fission produces radioactive wastes that have half lives up to thousands of years, making it hard to store them properly. However, the wastes from nuclear fusion would only have half lives of about 50 years and thus it only needs to be stored for a shorter amount of time before being released. The second problem of nuclear proliferation also disappears as Plutonium-239 is not produced as waste in nuclear fusion reactors. The third problem of danger due to accidents is also minimized as runaway nuclear fusion is impossible due to the delicate nature of its process.
Thus it is obvious that the advantages of nuclear fusion reactor would remove all considerations of implementing nuclear power in anyone’s mind. Just one major problem with fusion is that currently it has negative efficiency. Research on nuclear fusion is been actively done to overcome this problem. However various difficulties are being encountered with some estimate of a possible nuclear fusion reactor only at the year 2050. However, looking at the desperate need of a cheap and non-polluting source of energy, the speaker should also encourage the audience to contribute to the feasibility of nuclear fusion as soon as possible.
The physics major students can contribute by increasing the number of talents working on that field, the sociology students can help research on how best to overcome the psychological difficulties of the public in accepting nuclear energy, the economics students can help plan how best to implement the nuclear energy in the near future. The main question unanswered is how best to make the prospect of nuclear power in Southeast Asia come true.