Recently I was busying for my attachment and hopefully things will get better after February.

Well, I seldom to post something personal here except for this time. I was quite emotional recently due to certain reason. Don't know why and don't know how should I explain all of these because I can't even make thing clear in my mind.

Here come my second week of attachment:

Setting up projectors and screens.

We did a setup in Sheraton Tower for a conference. I am not sure what the event was about but what I know is the event was related to Intel. I helped to do projector setup such as setting up the screen and doing the adjustment for the projector to make sure the image is able to projected well on screen. Image alignment, colour correction and contrast comparison are the tests to make sure the setting is correct. We spent quite lot of times for doing image alignment because we need to ensure that 3 projectors can project the image to the screen nicely and can combine become a whole image. As you can imagine, the 3 screens were putting together side by side.

Someone was plugged in the RGBHV cable wrongly.

23/09/09

Effect processing unit.

Mackie SRM 350

Doing frequency response test for EV speakers.

Today we need to do set up at St Regis for a wedding ceremony. The wedding is held by a tycoon's son. Well, that is not the point. Before the set up, the technicians from Electro Voice came to do quality check for their speakers. Our company purchased about 24 line array speakers. The test they did was exactly the same as what we did during audio technology lesson. Thanks to Dr Wang. The guys explained to me how important the test is to maintain the quality of the driver to make sure the frequency response and level are still within acceptable range.

This was the first time I have been assigned to do rigging and cabling for the lighting. In the end, I managed to get the job done and now I am more confidence to do it and I know what I am doing and what should I do. We did a small PA system set up at the entrance there. Although this doesn't sounds too hard for us but at least now they are more comfortable to assign work for us to do. It is a great start I guess.

Running and taping down the cabling properly is very important to ensure the cable looks neatly and easier for teardown later.

The lighting gears were ready.

Here comes to the last day of the week. We were doing a set up at Singapore Expo. The amount of equipment involved wasn't a lot but the scale of the event set up was quite a huge set up. Me and Nigel were helping Roy to build up the trusses for projector screen. Most of the senior colleagues were busying for the set up so we didn't disturb them too much and we were just doing some simple job such as clearing the venue, taping the cable and make sure the cable is running smoothly and nicely, arranging all the empty flight cases to make sure that all the cases are keeping neatly. After the set up, Ah Kim and Ah Hui and another guy were explaining to us how the whole video distribution system work with connecting all the input and output devices such as monitor, projector and video camera.

The lighting setup for the event. Part of the trusses was assembled by me and Nigel.

Line array (EV).

A lot of flight cases...

Preparing the equipment for the set up.

Level 2, the place where stores all the lighting equipment and line array speakers.

Programming the moving lights.

Level 1, the place where stores all the power cables and XLR cables.

Lighting Board (Pearl)

Doing the set up for HTC roadshow.

On the way....

After the set up....

Portable dimmer pack.

He is Eng Meng, the lighting designer and lighting board operator.

The control booth for the Canon Partnership Signing event.

From Swiss Hotel level 69....

Level 4 where they store all the video equipments.

A lot of flight cases....

Trusses... can't really count got how many of them...

Level 3.

Level 3.

Loading the Trusses.

Preparing music to cheer up.

After a disappointing N97, now is the time to show something great for the loyal Nokia supporters.

Finally I have a the time to fully rest my body. I am having my 3 days off now due to no major event happens during these 3 days so we managed to get to rest.

Now I am facing the final part of getting my diploma, industry attachment, which is I think that is the hardest part to complete my course.

Finally, I am considered a step behind to complete my diploma and what I left now is a 6 month attachment. Currently I haven't confirm which company will I attach to but hopefully will toward more technical side.

As a soccer fan, especially for EPL fans, the recent big news is Cristiano Ronaldo joined Real Madrid. The transfer fee is the top of the world now. Sounds unbelievable? His monthly salary is 33 times higher than President of Germany.

Finally, after a bunch of events and a lot of assignments, I am currently enjoying my not so relaxing holiday. Why it is not so relaxing? Because assignments still need to prepare for the school reopen. Mixing, live event, paperworks.... it is just like never ending...

But I did really rest more and eat more during this holiday. This is my main intention for the term break.

Forgot to mention, I watched Monster Vs Alien in 3D cinema. The experience is very interesting and the effect is good. But I think I won't go for another 3D movie unless the technology can improve until I can get rid of the colour spectacles. When there is a stationary scene, the 3D effect is excellent but when there is a movement scene, what I can see is blur image. That's all. It was a pretty nice movie. It was funny, especially BOB. I think if the movie without this character, it will become quite boring.

Transformer 2 and Ice Age 3 are coming soon. CAN'T MISS IT....

Finally, I manage to get some free time to relax myself after a bunch of events and assignments. So I decided to give a summary about what has I done so far in this 5 weeks of my final year semester.

First of all, we had been told by our lecturers, Mr Isaac and Mr Lau that we need to come out 2 projects before end of the semester. One is for studio recording and another one is live events. For the studio recording part, thanks to Joel, he found a band is performing at a bar. So we decided to do a live recording and I believe that it will be very interesting and the performance of the band is good. We scheduled the recording on next Saturday. Live sound project is still searching under progress but it might be interesting.

Last week, we organised a live sound event. It was a karaoke competition and it called "Soul of Entertainment". The event was successful and we really did a great job. I was really enjoying to work with my classmates. This was the first time we really did a live event and I realised that is not a easy job.

Our mixer, SoundCraft GB2.

Setting up the mixer...

Mic stand... waiting to set up...

One of the main role, our JBL pasif speakers with subwoofer, mid range and high range.

Monitoring speaker, I think is JBL also.

So we stayed at campus because we had to do the rehearsal and performance in school. We finished the preparation on the first day and the strike on the second day, both day were busying until 11pm. So we were staying at school. We stayed at the place called LOFT. It was a great place. Fully air conditioned, wireless ready, fridge, sofa, bed and toilets. There is even much better than the place I am staying in Singapore.

Living Room....

Cool wireless router...

Kitchen...

Toilet...

Here is the boring part, for stage management module, I don't know why we need to watch 5 events for no reason because we don't even know what we need to do for these events. I have nothing to comment about the lecturer. We need to tell her what we observed every week. What a boring and nonsense lesson....

Now come to the worst part, I am having 2 Interdisciplinary Studies modules in this semester. One is Event communication and another one is World Issue: Singapore Perspective. Both of the modules are driving me crazy. I hate to write in english but these modules need to do a lot of writing assignments.

Actually, I didn't really feel i did many things in this 5 weeks and common test is coming soon. I was sick recently and I lost my voice for no reason.

I am seriously desperately hoping I will have some free time to catch some movies like X men, Star Trek, Night at the Museum and Monster vs Aliens.

I am also waiting for the releasing of new iTouch and Nokia 5730XM. I think is the time for me to change my handphone because it started to go crazy sometime, especially for the speaker. I think the connection of the speaker part started to loose. It is the sign for retirement.

Spent too much money recently as well. Don't know where is my money gone.

2 weeks never go back to JB. I am so missing my family, my mum's cook, my bed and my air cond. It is very hot here recently. Finally I can go back home tomorrow after I finish the soccer competition with my classmates.

Recently I was downloaded quite a lot of albums. I am highly recommending you to listen John Mayer's songs. He is a very good guitarist and he has a very good voice. Lady Gaga, The Fray, Ronan Keating, 3OH!3, Ciara and Beyonce also launched their latest albums recently. A korean song, it called "Nobody" also is a good song to listen. If you don't know about the song, please go to youtube to look for the music video.

Having trouble to maintain 2 email accounts? Using one of the email account more often meanwhile don't want to miss anything that receive by another account? Have no idea how to compensate with these email accounts?

Now, Michael's Top Tip is going to show you that how can you divert your email from one account to another account.

Here is the scenario. I am having a personal hotmail account meanwhile I also having a school email and this helps me to keep track for the latest update of the information from my school and my lecturers. Sometime is pretty lazy and not very convenience to check each account individually so here come the solution.

I will show the way to set it up step by step.

Step 1:
Log in to the account that you wish to divert the emails. Example, I want to divert the emails from my school account to my personal email account.


You need to set up a new contact first so later it can divert to your contact, which is the email address that you wish to divert.


Key in any information that you think is necessary, of course name and the email address are the must.

When you done just click save & close button.

Step 2:
Go to Tools tab....

Choose New Mail Rule

It will pop up a new Create Rule window.
Step 3:
Under Create conditions session, change the sender to ALL DOCUMENTS.

Then press the ADD button.

Step 4:
Under Create action session, change the 'move to folder' command to 'send copy to'.

It will add a new input bar and you need to click the button that just beside it.

It will pop up a new window that ask you to choose the contact that you want to send to.
Select the contact and press the 'ADD' button. Press OK after you done these.

Get back to the Create Rule window and press the add button to add in the action that you chosen just now.

So now you should see the exactly setting like this:
Just click the OK button and now you will get thing done.

You should be able to see the new rule that you set it just now.


Now you can divert the school emails to your personal account and also can reply to the sender. This is seriously brilliant. So you cannot find any excuses for forgotten to read your school email.

Thanks and hope it will be helpful to you.