third day of cfp.

life sciences-chem engineering:
we built our own water filter, using pebbles, coral and sand! and the lecturer was really nice! she mentioned our group for our meticulous care and concern in arranging the pebbles (we even separated small pebbles from larger ones) hahax. ours wasnt too bad, effectiveness of about 11%! ^^ that isnt too bad, some groups filters had efficiency of only 0.4%. o.0

school of built environment:
our group won the competition! we were supposed to design and construct a small scale house for a given client with a given amount of money, and i didnt in a million years think we would win, because other groups' models had much more interesting designs and facilities (ie swimming pool) and the only distinction for ours was that it was pyramid shaped. with a transparent wall as a skylight. BUT OH WELL, WHO'S COMPLAINING??? WE WON!!!!


too bad i have to pon it the next two days, especially cos tomorrow we're supposed to be going to the PSA and doing archery. but farewell is even more pressing.


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watched a mostly black and white movie by steven spielberg called "schindler's list", based on the german nazi officer Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. the name refers to the list of jew's names that he had compiled to work in his factory, thereby saving them. originally he wanted to "buy" Jews from concentration camps to work in his factory (cheap labour in the cheapest way possible) but in the end he devoted himself into saving as many jews as possible from their certain deaths by bribing his fellow nazi officers. in the end he saved about 1100 pple.

there was this part which made me cry: nearing the end of the show, where the war was just declared over and he had to flee for his life cos he was a nazi, his workers gave him a letter declaring him to be innocent in the eyes of the 1100 jews, and a ring forged from the gold fillings of a jews teeth, with inscriptions on it. but then in the movie, he went into some sort of nervous breakdown, because he was so convinced he could have saved so much more people. something like "why didnt i sell this car? i didnt need it, (the german officer) would have given me 10 jews for it, i know he would. 10 people i could have saved, standing there! and why didnt i sell this pin? (his nazi pin with the swastika) made of gold, it could have brung me at least two....." and it was so sad and i just kept crying!!


and though he remained bankrupt for majority of his life, he is still remembered by the jewish community, and all that.






somehow, incidents like these in the darkest periods of history always seem to make our present lives so meaningless and irrelevant.
i salute mr oskar shindler!



ok, gota go.