More cars, more bus fare, what is the world coming to?

I opened my email this morning when I got to work and guess what? I got a response from Len Schwer, one of the LS-DYNA gurus! I posted a question regarding smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) the night before and he was real quick to answer man! Wow!

The government is releasing more COEs this month. I guess some officials think that there are not enough cars on the road already! More cars, more gardens, more golf courses and less living space. Spectacular isn't it? And not to mention that the cost of public transportation is going up. The PTC did some math and concluded that public transportation costs much less in Singapore than in HongKong and New York, so no problem raising fares. Errhmm, excuse me, which country is more densely populated? Which country is more in need of living space? I can hardly breathe in here! Public transport companies are doing a pathetic job at earning revenue from advertising and such. No wonder they can't make enough money. Look at the number of ads you see in the San Francisco BART station and compare it to Eunos MRT? Poor citizens should not be made to subsidize a lack of effort on the part of these operators.

Anyway, enough ranting and whining. Weekend's coming and hopefully I will get better from the flu by then so I can after a hectic week at work.

Flu Flu Flu

I've been down with the flu all week, and it sucks. Trying to spend fewer hours at work and get more sleep so hopefully I can get better fast. Could it be the start of the bird flu pandemic that YW is always predicting? I've been eating a lot of chicken lately hmmmm.......

Anyway, I watched Singapore Dreaming twice. The second time was because my colleagues wanted to watch it during our program family day, so I just tagged along. The first half of the show has numerous snapshots of life in singapore that seemed a little out of place the first time. But this time around I got it. Basically the idea is to show how the rich and poor live in Singapore and to switch between the 2. Interesting....

In other news, I discovered the LS-DYNA forum on Yahoo groups. LS-DYNA@yahoogroups.com. Basically that's where around 6000 users and experts exchange ideas and answer questions, and they are rather prompt too! Just shows how excited people are about their work haha! Much more excited than our NTU professors who sometimes take over a month and still do not reply to my queries. Makes me wonder why I don't recommend that the funding we give them be cut right away. I also found out that some people refer to the research we do as High Fidelity Physics Based Finite Element Analysis. What a fancy name huh? The experts out there just call it hydrocodes. I guess a fancy name looks better on your CV.....