Thursday, May 04, 2006
Science Project
Yeah, yeah...I know this is my first time making a post on a blog.... you can stop saying "finally posting !" in front of the LCD monitor screen.
Allow me to present my first word upon posting for the first time
......"Hi"......
Well, based on Calvin's demand (CW... dun get upset ya), my first post in this blog will show you all the beautiful, yet ugly, + weird, however...WORKABLE !! pesky science project. Yes, I used the word "pesky" to symbolize my feelings towards my science project...meaning...I like it !! yet I also despise it :(
Why ?? you may ask,
The answers is as below:
I spend 3 days (19,20,21 April) to complete my project, 3 DAYS !!!
Obviously, when I stress on the term "3 days", I meant that it's a
lot of time. In 3 days, many events can happen, namely:
1. Tseng Yang gets married
2. Monash caught fire
3. Calvin gets a billion dollars
4. Cheng Wai updated NOTI-ING
5. Tseng Yang become a billionaire (hey, not just you CAL !!)
6. Bill Gates lost half his company shares to "Macrohard"
7. Logic Gates made so much logic that it's logical (Yes, this statement is silly)
8. Man can travel at the speed of light !!
9. Tseng Yang updates this blog again
10. Bruce Willis have to save the world from armageddon.... for REAL !!
Now do you see why I say 3 days is such a long time ?
I can go on and on about the significance of 3 days, then talk about time management, + much much more regarding the philosophical part of 3 days.....BUT......that is not my purpose today. Today, I shall only talk about my science project.
Let's continue.....
Day 1:
Meet in college to do the project in the morning. Although Elaine Chow brought all the necessary K-Nex toys to make the project, we noticed that we were still short of a golf ball, a sliding ramp, a funnel, and 2 MECHANICAL STEPS !!! Even after careful planning of 6 mechanical steps, we only realized that we are short of 2 steps when we went to ask our lecturers. Yasir, who was doing in another group with Chee Siong (because of different lab days) is also short of 1 mechanical step. So, that is when we halted all construction process and revised the design schematic. Yes, the day became difficult at that point, but life goes on you know. After the new design have been produced, we went to see our lecturer again and....phew.... the design had 6 steps....FINALLY !!! We went home after lunch.
Day 2:
Construction, construction, and construction....took us some time but we
managed to complete the project on this day. The only thing left to do
was....testing....
Day 3:
Testing.... The initial few tries failed and we could not see the mistake. We looked and looked again and found that the pulley was the source of the problem. The string connecting the box and the ramp was too long and we had to shorten it. It was a challenge to get the project to work failproof-ly, but ironically, that wasn't my biggest challenge. MY BIGGEST CHALLENGE was to keep my alarm clock safe from "DANGER"... 2 hyperactive creatures codenamed "C2" and "Leech". Apparently, they...somehow... enjoy to torture the alarm clock despite the fact that the clock was a vital part of the project. It was difficult, you know, to protect it against 2 VERY professional clock assasins. They move fast, furiously, and use dark corners as defensive camouflage. It's not a fair fight too...2 against 1. Eventually I found a spot that they cannot attack...MY POCKET. Ahh...nothing can be more safe then my pocket at that time....... Work goes on until the project is generally failproof.
-------- 1 WEEK LATER ---------
D-DAY ( 26 April 2006 ),
The day that the lecturers evaluate the project
on this day, the project made its first maiden appearance in public,
HEYZ....I got a pic of it....wanna take a look ??
How is it ?? beautiful, yet ugly, + weird, however...WORKABLE....yes ??
Ahh, i'm sure you all readers are anxious to know the result for this project, allow me to shorten my post and get straight to the point...
We were given 3 tries... and we succeeded in the first run.
18/20
HURRAY !!!!! :) :P
Not bad ya :) :> Till next time my friends.....
-Posted By TSENG YANG a.k.a "THE MAN
P.S : Calvin..... "
Wong Tseng Yang Cafe" is a marketable brand. "
Tseng Sou Yew Cafe", however, is not. (I SAW YOUR POST !!!) :) :)
