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GT 2010 - 4D3N Penang / Langkawi

Date : June 2010 school holiday

Estimated cost : $500 +/- (ALL inclusive!!)
– including 1 Free dinner hosted by Lecturers

Fly by budget airline direct to Penang - 4 full n funfill days

Activities :
Adventure / snorkeling **/ Go-karting / etc @ Langkawi
Food / shopping / sightseeing etc @ Penang

Who’s coming too : Your seniors graduated from NYP + a few other lecturers

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Certified BLI finally

I was priviliedged to attend 7-8 of Tony Buzan seminars in SIM. I was beheaving myself and do the the assigments with my best efforts all the time. And with more energy put into the drawing of in all the mindmaps....I somehow gained more and more of the benefits and insights out of the exercises. It certainly not love at 1st sight...but I experienced the beauty of the mindmapping techniques only after 20-30 drawings.

Buzan is of course watching my work along the various seminars...and at the last..he mentioned that my mindmaps are getting better and better. I am more daring and willing to use abit more symbols and self drawn pictures in them.

Then of course, he ask me 3 times personally to join Buzan as a certified trainer. I am indeed deeply honoured to be asked for such a role and I just cannot say no to the master.

So I took 5 days leave and pay thousands of dollars on my own to go through the training of BLI workshop. Of course that is only the beginning. the follow up assignments include :
- 1000 word essay
-100 mindmaps
- 5 x 2 hours teaching (w feedback form to prove)
- 1 video recording of the class

took me 3-4 months to complete the assignments and then I submitted them to Buzan Asia.

And last friday came the good news - I was then officially certified as a BLI...Buzan Licensed Trainer.

From the comments of the MD of Buzan Asia Henry : "Your lesson is engaging and homourous".

And I was handled some extra time teaching assignments at UniSIM soon...I can only do it on Sat morning. But I am moer than willing to try out this adventure.

Long term there is also need for me to do mindmaps teaching / official rules of techniques in Chinese. That will be a more time consuming effort.

Anyway...this is what I set in my goals in 2009 and I have achieved it on time. I am ahppy of the effort I put in and the outcome as well. :) Just want to share my happiness with u all. Cheers.

Some funny answers in Safety CT

here are some of the funny inputs i received this semester :


since when do we have hydrogen supply into pilot plant?

it says diesel will try to react with 2-ethyl hexanol...but the question says SEPERATE POOL!

1st time I see someone put in SOLID as a answer in this safety valve question. Real solid !!

Someone also imagine we actually have flare in pilot plant?? Even better- this student haven't go to CPTC yet...got future!!

I really duuno what this student doing during safety briefing in week 1....

Sounds like english teacher - cannot be pump so not pumpable. what kind of elaboration is that....

So important to switch on the air con and lights b4 starting distiallation.....so logical and simple!!

2kg/g is so much different from 2g/kg!!

as of always...there is someone do forget their year 1 organic chem naming sequence....


This sem I tell the students to put stars in front of the paper to indicate priority marking - means be the 1st to be marked. Those with more stars will be in front of those without....and the winner is : 10 stars !!

All the students understood, except 1...maybe he try to be very efficient, but to me is not effective (meaning - NO USE!) , I regard his input as just 1 star instead. Wonder why he never write more efficiently...like 1k / 1 m....

Go-Kart @local Jurong circuit

Finally after afew delays due to school CT rescheduling, 4 of us manage to take 1/2 day leave together to try out the local circuit @ jurong. It's actually near Tang Dynasty and next to KFC.


As expected circuit was the compact and winding type, so lots of sharp corners and there was a section which is quite bumpy too.

The cart engines are good, so at certain corners you really have to break and that is where skills come in abit to avoid spinning or hitting the tyres wall.


The steering of the cart was on the stiff side, so after 1 round we have to really rest. Had drinks at KFC to cool down and talk abit. Sonny is going back to Canada next Tue so we ask quite abit of his plan and info about things back home.

After 2 rounds, Allen have back pain, I have ribs strain, Sonny and Christof have cramp arms.
That's how stiff the steering and how much work to twist and turn all the corners.

Dun believe me? Look at the sweat after just 1 round!!
But is was still a very enjoyable outing we fulfill our aim the race in the local circuit b4 Sonny leave Singapore. :) We will miss him!!