whee. i made a launcher. all by myself. from my own pocket. and it works! Muahahahaha! it's mine!!! not the school's...yes it's mine!!! now i can launcher my own bottle rockets all by myself! without other's permission!

oh yar... have to mention the "learning journey" to bugis. at first i just wanted to go to a hardware shop "a short walk" from our school to buy an O-ring[something supposedly very common](first you either turn left or turn right, then you walk straight for 15 minutes). didnt intend to go to bugis, but since jimr was so enthusiastic about it, and also i forgot how to go to the hardware shop, and also jimr assured me that the place would sell O-rings("i will bang their heads if they don't"), and also he mentioned exciting stuff(forgot, but certainly sounds very exciting), so i went.

truly it was a place full of fun junk and boy, it had things like tinderbox, sledgehammer, 3 feet long cutters(i wonder what it cannot cut), coffins, a protection mask for acetyl-oxy-welding and *piles*. all sorts of shit(saw methanol too, poisonous, volatile and burns cleanly, very tempted to buy until jimr told me that some chemicals require IC)

jimr bought a can of higly compressed butane, and when released froze anything. produced frost on the nozzle when pressed for some 3 seconds.(good follow-up to deep-heat and chilli. chilli his nipples then freeze it off. or deep heat someone's balls then freeze his **** off)

basically, the bugis place had everything. everything but O-rings. wow.

so we went back to bishan and he followed me to a hardware in god-knows-where. that place wasn't impressive. was about less than 10% of the size of the shop he showed me. but it sold O-rings. (jimr was like saying "du-lan" all the way back to school)

ali is a cruel person. he superglues and araldites ants. one ant would never have its body leave a tree leaf.

oh yes. rockets are fun. do not underestimate a 1.5 foot launcher or a 1 foot rocket. founders day you all shall see.

exeunt.