WARNING: Uber long post
Spinnovex Day 1:
Met joel at redhill, he then drove me to school. He was kinda unsure of the way so we went to follow the mrt track. Then at north buoena vista road, joel decided to turn left and we ended up making a big round to school.
Parked infront of W12 (SRG Lab). We went to our respective venues and met up fifteen minutes later at the opening ceremony.
Before the opening ceremony, tieing my tie. I like this pic =)
Concert before the opening ceremony
Went for the opening ceremony with alvin, ka wei viknesh, jerome, joel and samuel. Was quite boring, the only thing we found interesting was when the boss of the singapore science centre made a speech which was also printed inside the spinnovex booklet handed out to us under "A Message by bla bla bla from the singapore science centre."
After the opening ceremony, samuel and I went back to our srg lab to nua and continue with our robots. Lunch quickly arrived. JJ went to eat with the others while i waited for joel and jerome to eat. The two of them arrived and Joel drove to the gate below dover mrt to pick up alvin and ka wei. We then switched places and I drove them to mac. Damn addicted to his mazda 3. Although the fuel consumption is not very low, the sound of the engine and the accleration was damn shiok.
Ate mac with joel and jerome while kw and alvin walked back after they took away theirs. Joel then drove back where he made a damn zai parking.
Parking situation
Joel and his mazda 3
Time passed and the first day of spinnovex came to an end. Nothing much happened in our lab, no one came to visit and stuff. Met up with joel, kw and alvin and we decided to go to holland villiage to have our dinner. However, joel kept missing the numerous parking lots that were along holland villiage.
I then suggested going 1 round by turning left three times but it resulted in Joel turning two times and being afraid about getting lost. hahaha. Walked a long way to holland V to see like there was nth to eat.
So we walked back to the car which was like 1km away and drove to depot road's botak jones to have our dinner.
Joel then kindly fetched us to tiong barhu mrt. While he was trying to turn out, he kinda got stuck and kena horn, haha. He was blocking the first lane.
View of his mazda 3 from the inside
Blocking the first lane
Overall, i would like to comment that joel is one of the slower and safer drivers i know and ever since i drove his mazda 3, i have been speeding.
Spinnovex Day 2:
Nothing much happened during day 2, continued doing my robot. This was when the robot cut my hand =(
Thats pretty much all as the people in tentage(Joel, Alvin, KW and others) had dinner. So i basically worked on my robot the whole day and go home.
Spinnovex Day 3:
Day 3, also the last day of spinnovex started out boring. I was tired and had no mood to program. JJ used the laptop to dota while i stoned and feel damn sian, like never accomplish anything. At around 5 went to tentage to meet the class for the closing ceremony. Soon everyone arrived and we took some pictures.
First almost complete class pic:
Then Joel got poked(notice the face)
Me caught offguard
Ben, Me, Shuai Quan.
Helped Alvin's group move their project to their project lab.
Returning the trolleys after moving
Then the closing ceremony started.
In the convention centre where the closing ceremony was held.
Was quite disappointed as the other wall climbing group which did very little won an award. Their supervisor does all the programming while they basically sit and stare at the screen. Alvin was also disappointed as their group had got a silver award along with a group that did a catapult for launching styrofoam planes which had also got into the main tent.
Projects in the main tent are kinda classified as a featured project or hilighted as they call it. They are supposed to be outstanding and a huge amount of hard work is supposed to be put into it. I should have done a catapult for styrofoam boats/cars and get in as a hilighted project also.
After the closing ceremony, we went for the free buffet where i chionged the food and drink until quite full.
Grabbing a bowl for a helping of cheng teng in the cooler boxes. Notice my plate =)
Then i realised KW was taking pictures
Joel's glasses, haha
On the way to the MRT after a long day.
Joel, Alvin, KW and I then headed to ps Starbucks to chill until late after which we went home to have a good rest.
Overall, Spinnovex was a boring experience for me, but not for those in the main tent. How I wish i were there. The bright side is i made some new friends =)
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