The Infinite World

The way forward for the human race is to stop fighting each other. Save the money to help the less well off, by giving them the much needed education.  Saying is so easy, but the selfish human will not listen. 

 A new year has begun, year 2021.  Human is still going nowhere, their selfishness made them fight again each other, do things that harm each other, harm their environment.  They are always caught up in their fights, never realised that they are actually fighting their evil half every single day.  They have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years and will continued to do so for who knows how long more, till the day they wake up from their long slumber.  Human always dwell in their emotions, which always end up wasting their time. It will take a great deal of effort to wake them up, as their evil self always stand ready to defeat them.  It’s a vicious cycle.....

Yuki Kawauchi achieved his 100th career sub 2:20 marathon at the 51st Hofu Yomiuri marathon on 20 Dec 2020, Sunday. He finished 2nd position with a time of 2:10:26. Congratulations to Yuki...!!!

SpaceX which already surpasses its previous best of 21 launches in a year in 2018, completed its 25th launch of 2020 on 11 Dec. The SXM7 mission launch a 7 ton broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM, from Florida. Another launch is scheduled for 17 Dec 2020, a NROL launch.

There is no doubt that SpaceX Starship will go from 12.5 km test flight to a 100km or more by the end of 2021. In the mean time, why not build a improved Dragon spacecraft to test out all the technology needed for a prolonged space flight?  The trip to the moon may only take a week or two only, but a Mars trip will take at least 6 months or more. Build a spacecraft to test out all the life support systems will speed up the actual Human capable Starship.  The test spacecraft can take a trip to nowhere, but maybe up to a million km away from earth. Human need to build up the knowledge in space travel, rather than jumping into something big and not tested. At the same time, meet up with new problem that will definitely surface on a long trip. A engine that need repair, a collapsed computer on board, how to treat a sick astronaut when you are 2.8million km away from the hospital? Yes, human need to accumulate the knowledge for long distance space travel. 

SpaceX starship prototype SN8 successfully launched on 9 Dec 2020 about 5 am Singapore time. The 3 Raptor’s engine ignited and lifted off from the ground and went up all the way until about 4 min plus of the flight and shut the engines and tipped over using small thruster along the middle of its belly, till horizontal and glided beautifully down to the surface again. Just before reaching the ground, the engines reignited again and flipped back up to vertical position for the landing. It did land but could not control the landing and sort of exploded, it did not explode and burn for a long time, as the smoke screen cleared only after about 45 seconds. It was a beautiful flight and is considered a successful flight of 6min42 sec. Congratulations to SpaceX...!!!! Way to go. Looking forward to the next test SN9!

SpaceX has completed 24 launches in 2020 up to 6 Dec 2020. 23 regular launches and 1 abort test for the crew mission certification. For a company, it has done so much more even compared to most space agencies! In fact, it has done a excellent job, who else can bring back a booster rocket from 70km up and reused it 7th times!

SpaceX Starship SN8 first high attitude test flight to 15km could happen any time from 4 Dec to 6 Dec 2020 from its Boca Chica site in Texas. This is the upper stage of the whole package, which also include the lower stage first stage called the Super Heavy. 

 Started my run quite late, about 7.20 pm. I started the run quite briskly, not my usual slow start. The route was from yck road to bishan park, I had to cross like 4 traffic lights, which slow down my pace. I reached the park in 16 min 1 sec, my pb for this stretch of 2.65 km is 14min40sec. Still feeling good, I continued with 1 lap around the park, was quite winded by the time I exit the park again. I still needed to complete the same stretch I took to the park. I started to reduce my pace, but I tried to just run at a reasonable pace till I reached yck road again. I eventually completed 9.05km in 55min42.6sec. If there is no need to tackle all the traffic crossing, I believed I can reduce the time taken by about 1.5 minutes. 

  200m 28.3 sec 1985 These are my all my life time best timing. Hopefully I can still get a chance to better some of these soon!  400m 65.9 sec 1990 800m 2min41sec 199? 2.4km 9min31sec 1991 3km 13min01sec 199? 5km 23min15sec 199? 10km 50min21sec 2014 21.1km 1hr57min27sec 2012 42.195km 4hr4min26sec 2014

 The world can be a better place if world leaders were to wake up their selfish self! The Leaders themselves have too many own agendas, which are unrelated to building a better society. It’s a unspoken truth that the majority cannot come to term with, everyone to themselves. One more thing, the greed for power in human self will see the world locked in a perpetual cycle of fighting war, hatred, poverty, all because of the evil side of human nature!

 Started the run this morning at 7.16am, ran along Yio Chu Kang road towards buangkok direction and then turned left onto lentor Avenue. My intention was to check our skeletal northlink via yishun Avenue 1. It was a slow run, my pace never went faster than 6.30 per km. Not good, the road there are getting crowded with cars and trucks by 7 plus am. There are loads of cyclists as well, I think they are in dangerous situation with all the heavy dump trucks around. The roads side are all works going on, especially on the right side if you are going towards punggol marina. Messy everywhere, not good for running and walking. Hot as well after 7.30 am, be prepared if anyone is going!

Human beings need to have a thirst for the unknown, which will ultimately lead to the progress of their being a living civilisation. It is quite meaningless, if human intend to just deplete the planet’s resources over time.  What is limiting human beings, to relate to their greater surroundings, is their current technology level and thinking. They will ultimately make progress by just working on their technology constantly.  They will need to be less selfish and less power hunger to survive and to avoid destroying their own race. Power can never be trusted onto a few good individuals, who will ultimately go astray over time. Human feelings and thinking can change for no reasons, due to their weak mind. Human leaders are too dominating and have too many personal agenda, they tend to neglect the general population no matter how hard they think they are trying. The human mind is fickle and easily influenced by the selfish mind. 

 A learning culture can help many countries still trapped by their past or a bad government. Learning new things, new skills can get them out of their situation.  There are definitely people in these countries who are trying hard to improve their situation. Perhaps they just need some help to get the push on education that is needed. If the people at the top are not motivated by greed and power, the lower rank of society will be better off.

I got enlisted into the army, no choice compulsory conscription. Basic military training, it teaches you how to listen to order and obey order regardless if it’s right or wrong. They teach you how to fire a bullet from a rifle and how to fight with a bayonet on a rifle. 3 months of basic training, then they sent you to different unit. I was sent to the communication or signal unit. It takes away part of one’s life, to fight a imminent war that the human leader foresee.

New generation aircraft carrier need to be fast and well defended. As vertical takeoff becomes more reliable in the near future, the carrier act like a mothership to refuel and rearmed, rather than a runway. The flat deck becomes less of a focal point, the carrier can be less than 300m long but still carries about 100 combat aircraft. The ship need to be better defended with more close range rapid fire gun or cannon, plus more missiles for all purpose. The carrier would definitely carry fewer crew and more automated with less space for accommodation.  The current design of large carrier tend to focus on the runway, making it odd looking and not aerodynamic which slow down the top speed.

SpaceX Starship prototype SN5 made a successful first hop on the 4 Aug 2020 into the sky above the Boca Chica site. It fired up its single Raptor engine and flew to a high of about 150 metres and landed some distance from the test stand.

SpaceX successfully completed its 12th launch of 2020 launching a military satellite for the Korea Government. It also landed the first stage for the 57th time and recovered both fairings at the same time. Another notable achievement is the shortest interval between launch of the same first stage, 51 days.

Singapore Singapore opposition party , Worker’s Party won 10 of 93 seats in the Singapore election. A super majority is never a good thing! In the next election, the opposition should strive to win a quarter of the parliamentary seats.

What will be the outcome? There has been a super majority since the birth of the city state, it’s about time for a change for the better.

I went to run at the Yio Chu Kang stadium for the first time since 5 April 2020. I covered 3km or 7.5 laps in 14min6.1sec.

I did a short run of 5.57km in 33min10.7sec on 23 June 2020 Tuesday. The run was around Far Horizon Garden , THK hospital, Nouvo, Castle green and Sp. I completed a little over 3 Laps.

I started the run at 7.30am on 20 June 2020, Saturday, from the usual start point at Yio Chu Kang Road towards upper Thomson road. I turned right at upper Thomson road towards spring leaf estate and then continued left onto Mandai road to the upper Seletar reservoir. This is only the 2nd time that I run to this area. I ran into the reservoir area towards the rocket tower, which served as a lookout tower over the surrounding area. I continued until the other side of the area and then out via a access road to where I entered the reservoir. Once I reached springleaf nature park, I continued on the park connector to Lentor Avenue, I stopped at the bus stop opposite Bullion park condominium as it started to rain quite heavily. I covered a distance of 13.08 km in 1 hour 2 min 14 sec.

With the emergence of remotely piloted vehicles, large warships are vulnerable to all kinds of attack. Air borne attackers are the most difficult to ward off, as they are small, fast and difficult to detect. The threats can also come for small surface craft or underwater craft, or even remotely controlled mines.  When the drones come in mass quantities, it create a situation where you need to deal with multiple threats. If each carry an explosive device and can attach itself onto the hull of a ship, then it spelled trouble. If you have watched the American movie “Battleship ” (2012)then you can imagine what’s going to happen! These weapons are going to be a reality in the future.  Ship need to be fitted with more automated cannons or machine guns to fight such drones. Small missiles will need to be developed to deal with short and close range targets, it needs to be able to be fired off at any instant. The Russian rotary cannon and missiles system on their current warships is ...

I did a 10.36km run in 1 hour 5min 29 sec on 18 June 2020 Thursday. I started on Yio Chu Kang Road towards upper Thomson road 1.5km away and turned left towards bishan park. I covered 1 lap around the park about 3.2km and back to the start point and a little further to the bus stop in front of castle green and back to the start point.

Did a short run of 5.38km in 37min53.7sec on 15 June 2020 Monday. 

SpaceX completed its 10th mission of the year on 13 June 2020 Saturday. It was launched from launch complex 40, Cape Canaveral. The payload was 58 Starlink satellites and 3 Planetlab rideshare satellite name Skylab 16-18. 

I started my run as usual from Yio Chu Kang road, but ran towards the opposite direction to Sunrise garden along the same road. The distance to sunrise garden is about 2.36km and I turned back from this point and on the way back I turned left into ang mo kio electronic park. I came back onto Yio Chu Kang road again by turning left at the apple factory and towards my start point. I continued with 1 lap around far horizon garden, nouvo, castle green and back to my start point. I covered a total of 7.13km in 46min34.1sec.

I started my run as usual from Yio Chu Kang Road towards upper Thomson road about 1.5km away then to bishan park. I turned left on amk ave 1 then left onto amk ave 2 then left on to amk ave 5 and then back to Yio Chu Kang Road. Total distance 5.59km in 39min30.5sec.

Completed a slow short run of 5.12km in 47min8.5sec, on 8 Jun 2020 Monday. 

I did a short run of 7.44km frunn yck SP to junction of upper Thomson and Seletar expressway, 42min52.6sec.

I covered 4.06 km from Yio Chu Kang Road to bishan park via Upper Thomson Road and stopped in the park, in 22min52sec. After resting for about 1min, I continued on park and back home the way I came, 5.1km in 34min41sec.

I started the run at 6.11am on 30 May 2020, Saturday. I ran from Yio Chu Kang road towards Thomson road, the continued on to Bishan park. I continued along bishan park towards the bishan mrt depot, I reached the entrance of the park connector beside the depot around 36 minutes into the run. I covered almost 3 times (to and from) the 3.24km route, before I stopped, as I met a friend. After about 20 minutes, I continued with my run back home for another 6km in 40min53sec.

I did a short run of 6.04km on 27 May 2020, Wednesday, in a time of 45min34sec. It was a not a good run from the start, it got worse from the 4th km, I suffered a upset tummy and had to do a very slow run back home.

I did a short run of 6.03km in 36min16.5sec on 25 May 2020 Monday. I ran to amk electronic park from Yio Chu Kang Road and 3.3 laps of 1.53km each. It was a messy run and slow pace. 

I started my run this morning at 6.54am, 23 May 2020 Saturday. I ran from Yio Chu Kang road, to amk electronic park, about 1km away and completed a total of 10 laps of 1.53km each. Total distance covered was 16.2km in 1hr31min49sec, average pace was 5:40 per km. The weather looked like it was going to rain, with dark clouds mostly, but I just proceeded with the run. At the start of the second lap, it started to drizzle, I just ignored it. The rain got abit more intensive by the fourth lap, but never more than light rain. I pressed on and by the 7 lap or so, I was not even bother by it. I felt alright most of the way, but I just kept a comfortable pace, never attempting to try to up my pace too much. I got quite bored and eventually stopped slightly after the 10th lap. 

I did a short run today 19 May 2020 Tuesday, covered 4.07km in 20min19sec. I run to the ang mo kio electronic park plus 2 laps around it. I achieved segment best of 6min58sec for the lap of 1.53km. 

Same route as yesterday, ran to ang mo kio electronic park, plus 2 laps and back home. Total distance 5.14km in 29min55.8sec.

Ran from Yio Chu Kang road to ang mo kio electronic park, plus 4 laps of 1.53km. Total distance 10.16km in 56min16.8sec. Although not a fast pace, still more organic then the previous few days. This route is better, only 1 major road and 1 minor road to cross.

I did it again, another short and messy run of 6.22km in 45min37.4sec, on 16 May 2020 Saturday. Just wanted to keep up my running, but I was just running aimlessly! Ran to THK then passed by Anderson Jc then towards ire and back home.

I did another short messy run around the neighbourhood again on 14 May 2020 Thursday. Covered 6.18km in 43min35.4sec. I must try to avoid such messy run going forward!

I completed another short and messy run of 5.42 km around the neighbourhood in 35min44.1sec, on 13 May 2020 Wednesday. I just wanted to put in some distance into the legs.

I managed to cover 12.29km in 1hr16min32sec on 12 May 2020, Monday. I ran from Yio Chu Kang road to bishan park via upper Thomson road, covered 2 laps around the park and back to where I started. It’s about 2.6 km to bishan park from I usually start and 1 lap of the park is about 3.4km, near lower pierce reservoir.

Completed a 6.15km run on 11 May 2020 in 42min52.4sec. It was a messy and slow run around the neighbourhood.

I managed to do a run for 9 consecutive days, from 2 May to 10 May 2020. It’s a personal record for me, although in terms of distance or timing, nothing to crow about. I am just hoping that it will at least help me to become a better runner. Today’s run was a short one, only 2.36km in 14min50.4sec.

Completed a 14.48km run in 1hr32min29sec on the evening of 25 April 2020, Saturday. 

This evening, I covered 12.06km in 1hr15min15sec. I ran the usual route from yck road to upper Thomson road to bishan park, 2 rounds around the park and back home.

I completed 12.48km in 1hr24min52sec this evening. I ran from yck road via Upper Thomson Road to bishan park, ran around the park a bit and back home to Yio Chu Kang Road. I just run, although I was feeling shitty. 

I covered 8.77km in 49min4.4sec yesterday evening, 15 April 2020, Wednesday. I ran to bishan park via Yio Chu Kang road, upper Thomson, 1 lap around the park and back home.

I completed a 10.13km this evening in 1hr3min17sec, 14 April 2020, Tuesday. I ran the first 6km fast and slow run the 4km back home from bishan park.

I did a 6.52km run in 44min28.1sec on 12 April 2020, Sunday. Just a short slow run to put in some mileage.

I just completed a 8.12km run in 53min38.5sec. I had no target in mind, just want to put in some distance to keep fit. 

I completed a 6.22km run in 43min38.5sc at 7.21pm, Friday,10 April 2020.

I just completed 9.1km run in 57min25.7sec, from yck to bishan park and back. 

I completed a 10laps run at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium on 5 April 2020 Sunday. I clocked a time of 20:01.2, averaging around 2 min per lap. I clocked around 2:12 for the first lap and 4:23 for 2 laps. I did not check the time from the 3rd lap onwards. I felt ok after the run, I put the run around 70 percent effort, probably can do around 19:40 or better if I put in 90 percent effort. 

I had 1 target in mind which was to put in some distance but I was feeling lazy in the legs. I took the convenience route and ran along the road where I need to cross the least traffic light, felt heavy legged all the way. Eventually, I ran 10.16 km in 70:25. 

The current state of human space exploration is not looking good! Too much selfishness in human survival, every profit motivated business trying to squeeze the normal person in the street. Human just like to fight each other for selfish reasons. If the US can spend 20 percent of its defence spending on space exploration instead for the past 50 years, imagine what could have been achieved by now!

I started my run at approximately 6.45 pm, just want to put in some distance. I took the usual route to bishan park via Yio Chu Kang road towards upper Thomson road 1.5km away and reached bishan just a little inside 17 min, 2.7km. I was still feeling full in the stomach from lunch at 3pm, I was trying to just take it easy. I did just 1 lap around the park at about 6min per km pace. 1 lap is about 3.4km. Then I proceeded home, total distance completed was 9.05 km in 58min41sec. 

I started my run at 8.20 am this morning, from Yio Chu Kang road. I ran towards upper Thomson road 1.5 km away and turned left onto upper Thomson road to Bishan Park. I started very slowly 7:27  for the first km but speed up to 5:53 for the second km. I entered bishan park around 2.7km into the run. I completed the third km in 6:39, but was faster for the 4th km in 5:58. I then crossed the road to the other part of bishan park towards bishan mrt depot. When I reached the end of the park, I crossed the road again and entered the park connector beside the mrt train depot which took me towards braddell/Toa payoh. This was my turned around point and head back home retracing the same route I came. I ran my fast km split with the park connector section in the low mid 5 min pace. I completed 16.53 km in 1hr42min46sec.

Yes, with their current state of technology, humans are not going anywhere far and still survive to see the future. Anyone with technology surpassing humans would wonder why all the travelling and fighting and killing each other?? The earth is like a huge fishing tank view from space, so what is going on humans?? Human nature of greed and power will kill itself! Human nature is probably hard to change .....!!!!

SpaceX successfully launched the 6th batch of 60 Starlink Satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket. This launch is the 83rd Falcon 9 launch, the first stage B1048.5 completed a historical 5 Flight. The rocket was launched from Kennedy Space centre pad 39A on the 18 Mar 2020, but failed to stick the landing. The payload was approximately 15,600 kg. The mission was successful even though there was a engine failure on the first stage.

I completed a 25laps or 10km run at the Yck stadium Singapore in 51min 02.6sec. I managed to finish the run without looking at my watch, which I usually do at the end of each lap. I gauged I was like running at close to ninety percent effort, felt winded most of the time. I am trying to move my focus away from my breathing, but it could potentially switch to focusing on how the body felt, not a good thing. 

SpaceX successfully completed its 4th flight of 2020, on 17 February. The Starlink mission carried 60  satellites with a total weight of 15,600kg. All went well except the B1056.4 failed to tick the landing, it landed in the sea just beside the drone ship.

When will the current deadly virus stopped spreading? Maybe in 60 days, by April 9 2020 ? Maybe, no one will know....

I went for a night run at Yio Chu Kang stadium, started at 9.05pm. Initially wanted to run 25 laps or 10km, but changed my mind as I felt I was running too fast. I ended up running only 12.5 laps or 5km in 24min15.7sec.

I completed a 25 laps or 10km run at the Yio Chu Kang stadium, Singapore in 50min58.4sec on 3 Feb 2020 Monday. This is my second fastest 10km run in my entire life. I felt like I was running at about 90 plus percent effort, not very fast but I am happy.

I went to the start line of the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on the evening of 30 Nov 2019 before 6pm. I was trying to be very cool about the whole event, I told myself to really take it easy. But, still I was feeling as always apprehensive about how my body is going to take the 5-6 hours of running and walking. I started really easy, I tried to run as normally as possible, no rush and keeping the mind clear. The first few km was slow as usual, with the large number of runners around. I reached the 5km mark in 31min44sec. Although it was evening time with no sunshine, it was hot and humid. The next 5km was completed in 32min13sec, about 29 sec slower than the first 5km. The route was boring, the section passing below the elevated highway next to the old railway station was a lousy one. It was even worst thereafter, as you run up another elevated highway. The 15km mark was after the turnaround from the highway section, which I reached in 1hour37min2sec. I was glad to pass ...

It’s the year 2020, it’s time to wake up Earth and do useful things. Stop killing each other and appreciate each other. It’s a hard thing to do, start with educating the people and do away with personal gain motive!! People in power have too many personal agendas.