My project work journey part 1: Preliminary ideas

Project work is one of the compulsory subjects students in my country have to take for our A levels examination. Although it is important to do well for it, I cherish the entire process of doing this subject and I try my best to document how I went about accomplishing this. I am still in the process of taking this subject and my work is not the perfect example of how it should be done, but this memory is definitely worth keeping. There are two topics to choose from, inventions or wastage, and the first task of this project is do work on our preliminary ideas before we gather the work with our group to decide on a topic.


First stage
I was told that the first step was to go online and search for interesting inventions or sources of wastage. Had many interesting finds form synthetic life form to catalysts for electrolysis.

Over here are three different ideas which were rejected before I started on my finalised topic. Tried my luck on wastage of paper, and wastage of human waste (yes human waste in the form of biomass) and then with wastage of batteries which I am pretty confident about, but to no avail. Pretty obvious I am inclined towards the topic of wastage rather than inventions. 

Second stage

Draft 1 on my topic of wastage of food.

Trying my luck with a graphic organiser over here. Takes up too much space with too little information. I have also exceeded by word count by a huge margin. Draft 2. 

Draft 3. Back to the portrait format.

Another attempt to use the graphic organiser to stand out. Draft 4...

The pictures below are from my final draft, reached the maximum word limit, with a mock-up created entirely by myself using 'paint'. 

Final draft. Printed in colour with a proper title

Survey results obtained from other sources.

Mock up for my plan.

To all dragonball fans

I don't really think that I'd be able to much about the situation but if anyone of you by any chance happen to visit my blog I would like to turn your attention to what is known as Dragon Ball Hoshi. From what I believe and what everyone believes Dragon Ball Hoshi is a fraud created to confuse Dragon Ball fans that another series is coming up, and I thought that I should spread this message around for all the fans of Dragon Ball. I don't have to present the evidence because others have already done so. Here's a couple of links down below with proper evidences to explain everthing.
Blog: http://thedaoofdragonball.com/blog/fans/dragon-ball-hoshi-explained/
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWo_66UVPSk

Taken from  http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/235793  It has nothing to do with dragon ball Hoshi, just to show that this post is related to Dragon ball 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOav5edmU2o&feature=g-vrec

A video I've watched today on youtube, from the history channel.

This documentary provides a good amount of information regarding the major discoveries that help us build up today's image of anthropogenesis in a chronological order, covering the discovery of the fossils of the neanderthal, homo erectus, and the discovery of the fossils of Lucy, a homo Australopithecus.
Its a good thing I've decided to talk about this only after I've watched the entire video. I was about to challenge the fact that for nearly the entire documentary they spoke of neanderthals as 'our ancestors' when it is proven that we are two different species evolving from the same ancestors. Fortunately, they mentioned about this fact towards the end of the video so its pretty accurate afterall.
 
Anthropogenesis: The evolution of the human race

While I used to manage 2 blogs, I've decided to delete my older blog and to stick to this current one. My first blog all started as some silly piece of assignment and then as a way to practice on my language and to talk (lament) about life. My second blog on the other hand served as a platform for me put the things I've read up myself to good use and attempt to explain things as accurately as possible. However, what I've experienced in school as well as what I like to do both makes up important aspects of my life and are both inter-related and dependent on each other, so why not merge them? 

This is no longer just about how I see my life nor how I try to understand it. Its about me experiencing and understanding my life while I live it through. 

Still, there are things from my previous blog which I would like to keep in this current blog, such as the things I've said below. They weren't fond memories but they are things I would not want to forget, for they are still important to me.    

At this crucial point of time the realisation of  the futility of my attempts bestows upon me. A stroke of luck?

What is pride in oneself if all I strove for could not be appreciated by my reason to strive. Perhaps I am forever inferior to one of equal caliber equipped simply with differing talents?

Reality has caught up. Though I may not falter for now, my near future is clouded with uncertainty. 

11 November 2011

''Thats not going to get any better, so break it off from there. That way, a new shoot will grow so that new leaves will grow beautifully''-Honey and clover.  

12 November 2011

In times of sorrow I seek your support and yet, to no avail. A month of turmoil from the major examination my lifetime have ended as quickly as it came. I am now thrown into nothing more than a dull, vacant life, only to despair over your absence.

I spend every passing minute peering over my phone in desperation for your messages, knowing very well that in contrast, you spend your time lavishing every hour of playtime with your friends.
Friends...Was I ever treated as a friend by you? Your absence pains me, second, only to the reality that is dawning upon me. The reality of giving in to fate, which I had worked against ever since the day you were part of my life.    

18 November 2011

Keeping sane

Recently, I often worry about my sanity. The surmounting workload as the teaching of the syllabus goes full-throttle, the long school hours, but most of all the grim reality of the environment I live in- filled with students who could give up everything for the sake of academics achievement, students who delude themselves, becoming completely unaware of the importance of various skills in the real world, teenagers without a purpose nor a goal in life, and hypocritical individuals waiting for you to falter just so as to eliminate you from the 'race' so to speak.

I would only hope that as I learn to treasure what little true friends I possess who would genuinely accompany me through thick and thin, they too would learn and benefit just as much as I would with their support. I believe  benevolent ties would certainly triumph over hypocrisy.

Also, I have owl city to make me feel better  

Anguish

Painful words from the ones I cherish struck me hard again and again. Even as reverberating shocks still resonate within my already empty heart, a series of unrelenting though unintentional words continues to assault me. Just as much as I hope for my desirable outcome, it would never come to be if it goes against the wishes of  others. Human relations have always been in my opinion the most unpredictable and uncontrollable aspect of life. Now, should I salvage whatever remaining debris from a collapsed foundation knowing very well it would never form the perfect piece of architecture I pictured, or should I take to my heels and flee from her life. To flee from my problems and to spare myself from witnessing the construction of a beautiful infrastructure of my own desire, but in this case, not from my own hands. 

A lot of things have happened over the last few weeks. Unfortunately I have not been able to keep to my promise of adding one new post every week to my blog, as I was busy balancing my work with my national martial arts competition for the few past weeks. Looking back at my previous post I've come to realise it was pretty lame... Still, time and tide waits for no man, instead of lamenting over the past I rather look towards the future. Next week, I would be heading to the Nanyang technological university for my first professional science research programme. Life would become even more hectic now. Yet, it is a challenge I would welcome with open arms.

Some of the medals my team and I have won in a single day.