even though we did not win in the rocketry competiton, i am actually not too sad either.

here's why:

1. one $20 launcher vs about 40+ $80 launchers and we came in second, not bad already.

2. judges complimented our launchers. even though i didn't invent them, i built them myself, so i'm really proud of it. the hand launcher was an innovation, inspired by some guy's RE project.

3. Everyone at the competition felt, saw, and heard our presence. p-34r _5!

4. Amused by amyas' remark. amyas is a person who is not known to exaggerate.

"You could dry launch it, but i must warn you that it is really very loud."

Indeed, all who dry launched without ear protection went deaf for a couple of seconds. The echo was marvellous.

5. Fired a rocket across Malaysian territory. Range: >150 metres
@ 45 degrees, wet launch, 100 psi.

6. Managed to make rockets disappear into the sky for >15 secs. As in, they were so high up that it can't be seen and you are really scared tt it would land on you.

7. Everyone loved my handheld launcher.

8. We beat almost all the teams with a home-built launcher. Sorry, felt the need to stress tt again.

9. We enjoyed ourselves.

10. We didn't really put in much effort.

11. We were lucky tt we didn't cause too much trouble to the LRT ppl, australian ruggers, and trees in ri.

12. We learnt a lot from the organisers. They are really well-learned in rocketry and i'm happy to know that they actually considered many many aspects of the competition in organising. They do read their email, after all.

13. We didn't get caught using rockets >200g.

14. We know we can win.

Lastly, I learnt how to build a handheld launcher properly. if ppl are interested i might make and sell. But the response is not good. It is cool, but not THAT cool.