The Infinite World

  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.