Nice one, Nokia... Zzz...

Well... My phone died 2 weeks ago, and when I went to collect it on Wednesday, they told me that the phone has been corroded so it cannot be repaired and the warranty is also voided...

So I decided since the phone is already dead why not I try to open it up to see the extent of the damage...

1) Open the back plastic case...
Quite an easy thing to do... Note that the water damage sticker was purposely triggered (I wanted to see what could happen..) That was after I collected the phone and they said is beyond repair... So I figured that not harm would be done =)

2) Removing the screws...

3) Removing the front piece... [Screen + slider]


4) Remove the screws to the back piece...


The front piece:


5) Remove the screws to the front sheet to reveal the screen and the navigation keys... I pulled up the keypad too...




6) Go back to the main piece and remove the 2 screws holding the main board to the back portion of the phone... Remove the camera too...


7) The back piece:


In all the photos, notice the only corrosion is below the screen! Not on the main circuit board... So I wonder why the phone died completely after servicing [before sending it in I could still get a white screen and the phone is recognized as a "Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Generic / Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Phone Parent" when connected]

Now nothing happens!!!!

WTH is this???

[view my Picasa album of this...]

What Your Handwriting Says About You... [Facebook app]

Hmmm... Got a little free time today and went to try out this app called "What Your Handwriting Says About You"... and I think I would have to agree with most of what they have to say...

You are sometimes a very energetic person, but you are sometimes quite lethargic. [Quite true...]

You're moody, prone to ups and downs, and you don't have a lot of endurance. [Hmmm... This I partially disagree...]

You range from very outgoing to very shy. You are a shapeshifter who is very versatile. [Somewhat true...]

You adapt well, and you look at things from many angles. [I hope so... Haha...]

You are very detail oriented and meticulous. [Quite true...]

You are a careful thinker and a true intellectual. [Quite true...]

You don't a lot of space, and you prefer to spend time with others. [Very true...]

You are a little nosy and intrusive. [Not totally true...]

You sometimes don't give people enough space. [As ET always says... Haha...]

You are somewhat traditional, but you are also open to change. [Quite true...]

You listen to your head and your heart. [This I do not really know, but some of my friends say I do...]

You are a good communicator. [Not really true...]

You work hard to get your ideas across effectively. [Agreed...]

If you have the time, go try it out! Quite accurate results as I've seen... Haha...

Prelims... and other updates~!

August 9.. National day! Happy BD Sg!

Piano exam results... As I though, I GG-ed this exam again.. Lower than the previous round! Damn... I really shouldn't panic... It's not good for anything... heh...

Somewhere in early August... At least structured remedials are cancelled now... Now i can go home and study =) Haha...

Anyways... the Prelims...

Hmmm... It's the mids of Prelims and I think I GGed quite a bit of my subjects...

Chem - P3 was damn hard... Couldn't finish it on time... Spent too much time on a substance when it was already given earlier in the question. Didn't realize it until 15min was left... Then the rest of that question GG.. haha...

Physics - P2 was another lame paper... It's like an essay paper! When you flip open to the first page of the questions you'll see lines and more lines... The next 2 pages are also like that! OMG! Calculations are also very few... And those which are calculations are like damn difficult... Seems like many people are stuck with the last question... Even Wen Fong couldn't do it! (that says something...)

Econs - 3 hr paper. Not too bad, could do almost everything... But only 1 problem.. Couldn't finish... The 2nd essay I wrote until about 85% then times up...

GP - Surprisingly, I could finish the paper... Including AQ! Although the questions were very wierd...

Maths P1 - Not too bad... Could do a little more than half of it.. haha... Vectors and Complex numbers still GG...

Chem P2 - Totally different from P3! At least this one is managable... Could do most of it except for a few questions which I forgot how to do it...

3 more papers left! Yay!

NS Medical Checkup part 2...

Hmmm... Apparently the first time I had a few problems with the NS checkup people... Complained my heart beat too fast so I had to go back again... Plus, by the time I finished the medical part of it, they said it was going to close in an hour so I couldn't do the aplitude test [more like IQ test...]

So they gave me 07/07/2008 [Youth day!] [Monday] to go back to redo those 2 stations...

So... I guess it's over now... Got a PES C1 L2... Means I can get up to 2 stations off IPPT? Nice one!

The IQ tests are quite hard.. hehe... I wonder what I got...

Some more updates...

May 31st: My Birthday! Thanks all of you who have sent me a Happy Birthday message ^.^

Esp my Basses who went out for lunch with me :) Thanks for the presents!


Went to TPJC Band and Guitar concert... Was nice other than a few parts... Guitars should have been louder though... Met a few of my classmates there... Received a new pencil box as a present from Megumi, Eric and a few other TPJChoir mates... Thanks loads!

From left to right: Me, Wen Fong, Eugene Lim, Jiak Ling
(Don't know where Eugene Tay went in this photo...)

June: School Holidays~!

Although I had to go back to school in the first week of the holidays for lectures. Other than that nothing much...

It's been a month since Plaisir de Chanson 2008... Hehe... Would post a few recordings soon? Hmmm...

NS Medical check-up on 20/06/08! I wonder what PES I'll get... Hmmm... Most of my friends are in PES A and B... Only the one who broke his leg got PES E for 6mths then PES C2 L9...

Went to GradeBuilders for Phy, Maths and Chem crash course in the last 2 weeks of the holidays... Met my old Primary 6 classmate (Aloysius Tan) there... Found out he's staying nearby me =)

I guess that's the highlights for this month...

Plaisir de Chanson 2008

Well...

It's all over! TPJChoir performed in Plaisir de Chanson 2008 in the Esplanade and I dare say it was a really good performance!

For many J1s around, this is their first performance so if you're one of our audience please forgive them if they did not sing too well...

Wei Wei (00 batch's SC) was damn good ok? Here's a photo of me and him =)

I guess this is the first time you've heard of him. A short intro... He was the Student Conductor for the 00/01 batch of TPJChoir and currently is the assistant conductor of The Vocal Consort which is founded by Nelson Kwei, our ex-choral director. (That should say something about Weiwei yeah?)


We sang a total of 22 songs (including J2 chorus/alumni/combined/...) and I dare say all of them sound better that night then all the rehearsals we've ever had...

I would like to thank a few special people...
1) Nelson (for at least helping us in the first half of the year, until 1st April when that thing happened)
2) Weiwei (for conducting us, and guiding us... I personally wish you'd continue to stay with TPJChoir till they've finished their SYF.. haha) and Samuel
3) Our SCs for guiding us (though we still could not produce what you wanted fully.. but nvm lah?) and the P and VP of the choir
4) All J1s/J2s who sang in this concert
5) All Alumni who sang in this concert
6) Those J1s [Roger, Jeremiah and Joel Koh] who really took the time off to sing in the J2 chorus (you all kept saying "Please take me out..." but I didn't, and look, you've managed to get through it!)... I won't forget having all the extra sectionals with you whenever we could get hold of the time.. haha...
7) All our choir teachers-in-charge
8) All those who have bought our tickets

To end this post, here's a picture of the Bass section, 2008 JAE period... (to make up for the screwed concert booklet =X)

From left to right:
Back row: Tan Xiao Li, Roger You, Joel Goh, Lyndon Leong, Joel Koh
Mid row: Mohamed Haikal, Wong Dai Quan, Gabriel Lim [0708 SL]
Front row: Arron Li [0708 President], Jeremiah Tan

A Level PW results...

Well, TP118's members have mostly gotten a B for PW, however, as usual, Wen Fong (the imba one rmb?) got an "A"

Wootz...

I know this is really not an impressive task, coz most other people are getting "A"s... But it seems like TPJC has done relatively well this time, with more than 75% of the population getting a "A" or "B" for PW (again, not really the best, but at least better than last year ^.^)

I'll try to release all our group's materials (i dun think that's a problem now right? ^^) to help anyone who is doing PW now...


haiz.. i really have to get rid of this habit of backdating my posts... -_-'''