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Journal - Post 8

18th May 2009

- Done hanging out till 2am with the crazy fellas... Packing done...4 jabs done... should be set for a 20-day trip!

- A frantic afternoon as we tried printing out the operation manuals... Bill Gates should make PPTX more consumer friendly....

- Had a meeting with Tony to finalize designs and the technical nitty-gritty....

Tank Design

- Will not be having internet access till June. So yeah..stay tight!

Journal - Post 7

April 13th 2009

-Proposed an initial budget for grants application with Paul and Matt Owens last week. Did some "balooning figures" on the numbers...seems that it's the best way to get more $$$ .....

- Penn Relay was last weekend but was at Linford's place on Baltimore Avenue playing with concrete and testing out various tools...

- Sent it my visa application and surrendered my passport to the embassy. Also had a travel consult today with Dr. Urevick...she mentioned about various immunizations but there were just too many that i could remember.... -Wasn't really prepared for the construction manual presentation with Dr. Keenan today but we managed to pull through somehow...... lots of changes needed to be done before we leave...

- Technical design done for the piping system although Tony mentioned that we might need to make changes again once we are there...

Each dots represent a standpipe and we will linked the dots with pipes....

Project 1: Chenam Flow


Project 2: Fon ("Meta" Language for "Chief") Flow

- Am still waiting for the IJSLE grant money to arrive....It was suppose to arrive last week...gahhh..

Journal - Post 6

20th March 2009

- Attended "One Water" screening today with PJ and Evan... nothing really interesting or exciting...Many left before it was all over

- Had the first course lesson with Dr. Keenan and Tony last week...Tony was there to teach us hydrology and reminded us of the water cycle we learn in high school and a bit of hydrology. The scientific formulas used were "refreshing" (P-R-ET = F which is the conservation formula for spring water ie Precepitation - runoff - evaporation - transpiration = infiltration)...considering i was taught about it in Malay 7 years ago.... Because it was held so late in the evening, we had peanuts M & M's courtesy from the profs.


- Did some work on the water budget problem and also mechanism of Precipitation in Cameroon. It seems that June-July will be VERY wet!



- Was assigned randomly by Dr. Keenan to do the construction manual..crapsss..... 2 whole books to read before next week....

Journal - Post 5

February 24th 2009

- Great news this week...Dr. Colledge from PSU sent me an email a few days ago notifying me that the CASE-IJSLE grant for the Gundom-Project has been approved! Wheeee..... Jay and Davesh were still asking if they could look at the application last week! ahaha...

- Had the interview last week with Megan and Dr. Keenan for a place on the implementation team this summer. Was probably the first to be interviewed for the program and Dr. Keenan remembered me from his ESE 210 class...free-ride here... after 15 minutes or so..everything was done... megan asked if i was interested with the materials-finance but i said i was more interested with technical designs... not sure what Tony said about me..but o well....

-Davesh scared the hell out of me today with his "sudden appearance" while i was applying for the SII position for spring break at the Towne lab. He told me unofficially that I was "in" the team. And true enough....received an email from Davesh, Paul, Joe Sun, Megan and Keenan the next day to confirm my admittance...