The Infinite World

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.