I clearly do not have the basic skills
Thursday, March 09, 2006
After reviewing the answers today, im startin to stress out even more...Anyway, had a really early start to the day as i had a land information lab to go to. Reached uni at about 9am and was eager to do some hardcore land surveying. Armed with our tripod, pegs and theodolites (A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles), a group of us set out to the murky depths of Auckland Domain. After a 5 minutes stroll, we reached a barren piece of land just waiting to be surveyed. Grass here was preety soft and the land was slighty inclined which makes a perfect spot for practising our new found surveying skills. After a brief demo and setting up to instrument, lo and behold, rain started descending upon us. Quickly, the lecturer asked some dude to take off his jacket and protect the instrument, disregarding the fact that poor dude was going to get all drenched. Well, rule number 1: protect instruments at all cost.
Thankfully, the rain started to subside and we were able to set up our precious equipment once again. The guy said that there was one group that had to use the microptic theodolite as oppose to the newer digital version. Using this older one would really be a pain in the ass as we had to read the measurements off some scale.
Luckly, my group got the digital one and i was relief not to get one of those old machine. But boy was i wrong, as nobody wanted to use the old machine resulting in a shortage of group members for them. Subsequently, lucky me was chosen to join that group. ARGH!!
After much cussing and patience, we finally got all the measurements and headed back to base. Next on the agenda was MM2, a record 36 slides was reviewed by our lecturer whom seemed oblivious to many students. I couldnt take this any longer so i decided to skip the next lec and headed straight for home to write this entry...hopefully i made the right choice....hopefully....
Alex
9:16 PM
CRAPPER
Ah-Lek Cheah
September 8th 1986
New Zealand
Civil Engineer wannabe
About the author:
Malaysian by birth, Alex Cheah was born in the rough and ruggard suburban city of Paramount Garden. He currently is pursuing a degree
in Civil Engineering in Auckland University, New Zealand.
The overall subject of blogging has been a life long passion. His frist blog has receives many accolates and criticism. The second (craptacular) aims
to cater for the ever growing demand of his friends.
In craptacular, Alex incorporates the very best of Malaysian Humour garnished with a hint of sacarsm and a pinch of disgustingly LAME jokes.
The result is a simple, practical blog which is geared to either piss someone off or provide humour to his/her life (hopefully the latter).
