Transforming my Optimus Prime (Leader Class) from ROBOT to TRUCK mode

In the blogpost about few weeks back, i mentioned that i was given a set of Optimus Prime (Leader Class) toy.

During my Organic Chemistry Mastery Workshops 2009 in mid-July, it was unveiled to the group of GCE O Levels Secondary 4 students and they were surprised to see me bringing a toy to a proper academic Chemistry Workshop.

After telling them how this Optimus Prime Transformer toy is linked and associated to chemistry, typically Organic Chemistry, they were excited for me (as well as themselves). However, i has problem in transforming the ROBOT mode to the TRUCK mode.

Even after the workshop, i did not manage to transform it properly after i read (and try to follow) the instruction manual. Hours and Hours passed and after 4 hrs, my TRUCK mode is still not in place.

During one of the recent Chemistry regular tuition class, one of my students told me to check out YOUTUBE to find videos on the toy transformation. I was initially skeptical about it, but when i reached home and check it out, i was shocked to find out so many videos that teach us the step-by-step! It is certainly 100% more useful than the instruction manual provided with the toy.

Check out these transition states of my Optimus Prime as it transform from ROBOT to TRUCK mode:









Saw my computer LCD screen? Yes, i was following instructions from youtube videos.

If you have problem in transforming your Optimus Prime (Leader Class), check out the youtube video below. That is what i did! Social Media websites are a source of enrichment and self-developments.


Link to Youtube video

Transformers - My 1st Toys since childhood dreams

Hello friends,

Sorry for disappearing for awhile on this blog cos i was away to conduct Intensive Revision Programmes for a group of committed GCE O Level Chemistry students, in the whole month of June.

Just a quick update, i have watched Transformers Part II: Revenge of the Fallen in the movies and also got my 1st toys from Transformers, since young. Watched the cartoons when i was about 19 years old, but has never gotten a Transformer toy before.

I got my Optimus Prime lately! Yeah! It was a gift from my meow, and was such a surprise for me. Big big set of Optimus - leader of autobots.



And i won the Scorponok (member of Decepticon..the bad guys) when i enter the "Transformer Spinning Contest" at Robinsons. This decepticon is featured in Transformer Part during the "Scorpion Attack of the US soldiers"


How about seeing me with the real Optimius Prime taking pictures together?????

June Intensive Revision Programme (O level Chemistry & Math)

How has your child performed in the Mid Year Exams or common tests?

Are they scoring the marks they want? Or did they not do well this time?



With less than 24 weeks from O level exams (10 - 12 weeks to Prelims), this June holiday will
perhaps be the ONLY TIME that all students can learn and build up a strong foundation in order
to be prepared for this major exam which determines the next stage in their educational pathway.

The outcome of their O level exams is determined on how they spend their time and energy from now till October.

All students who have done exceptionally well for O levels start their preparation early. It involves building strong foundation of concepts, ability to apply correctly on questions, confidently prepared and mentally ready for their first International exams.

Our June Intensive Revision Programme (IRP) for Sec 3s and Sec 4s this holiday will achieve all the objectives as mentioned.

June IRP is designed into topical workshops which consist of heavy weightage and tricky topics (Sec 3s and 4s) many students find challenges in.

This June Intensive Revision Programme is carried out in this manner:

1. Experiential learning
2. Active participation
3. Timed exercises environment
4. Pre-post review assessment

All of these are to ensure that students benefit the most from each workshop: Strong foundation of essential concepts, confident on applying to exam questions, well-prepared for exam condition.

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"Sean has made it possible for me to understand certain Chemistry Concepts much better. There are several fundamentals that he insists on me knowing it, that i initially thought of skipping. His analogies and ways of relating chemistry to everyday life is very apt and makes it easier for me to grasp the concepts. With a good grasp of the fundamental concepts, it was so much easier
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My 1st Chemistry Book - Up Your Chemistry Grades Now!

Hello everyone,

It has been sometime since i wrote my last post.

I had been busy with:

1) Preparing my group of O Level Students for their upcoming Chemistry Examinations under the Final Leap Program.

2) Writing my 1st Chemistry Book - known as Up Your Chemistry Grades Now!
I had almost all my eneegy consumed into writing this exciting book for chemistry students taking "N", "O" Levels as well as Grades 10/11 for ICGSE & IB examination.

This is NOT a Ten Year Series or any Assessment Books you see in major bookstore at the moment which contains pratice questions..i think there are enough of such books already in the major bookstore now.

This is a book that aim to allow students to score more marks in Chemistry Exams by:
1) Knowing What Examiners Are Looking Out For!
2) Common Mistakes that are made by many other students during Chemistry Exams!

In simple terms, this is a book "For Chemistry Students; By The Experience of Chemistry Students".

In order to thank you for your support & trust for the past months & years, i would like to give you the INTRODUCTORY SECTION of this book as a F-R-E-E Gift.

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- How to answer to the question by knowing what each keyword is asking for

- Examination Tips which will save you time and score you more marks

- Common mistakes made by most students that you want to avoid at all cost!

- Plus INSTANT measures of providing the correct answers which will reward you the full marks!

- Must Know Chemical Definitions that you must know if you want A's

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To Your Academic Success in Chemistry,
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Ohhhh yar...i am the blogger @ this blog... =))

Mole Calculation Mastery Workskop

I am looking forward to the upcoming Mole Calculation Mastery Workshop on Sat 16th Aug at Rendezvous Hotel.

Can't wait for the day to come so that i can change their "grumpy and low energy look" to "excited and high energy look".

DARK KNIGHT

This afternoon i was at the cinema to catch the Dark Knight (after being recommended to me by my students).

I must say that this is the best action superhero film I have seen this year. Not only it has lots of exciting battle scenes, special mention must be given to the late Heath Ledger, whose acting role in the movie as the psychopath Joker, which I feel, has far surpassed batman. Not only has he showed us how a psychopath acts, every area of how a psychopath thinks and feels, he has carried it out very well. Hmm. This is not a website to review movies, so i would just say that this is one of the greatest movie this year, and it combines good cinematography, writings, plots, actions, sound effects and excellent actings. The movie shows love, humanity, good over evil & power of psychology.



Now, do you all still remember the part where batman ask his company officer to make him a new batman suit? (after he was attacked by dogs). The new suit is made of Titanium & Kevlar, as mentioned in the movie. Want to know more how Chemistry is related to DARK NIGHT'S batman suit?

Successful Completion - Organic Chemistry Mastery Workshop

Been busy for the last few days with conducting the 1st ever in Singapore: Organic Chemistry Mastery Workshop for 'O' Level Students.

Selected are some photos to show with friends and readers of this personal life blog of mine.

Stange Moving Leaf @ Bt Timah, Singapore

Anyone know what is the mechanism behind this phenomenon.

I understand there is some kind of biochemical reactions happening there...

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Investigating Rusting In My House

Been in an investigating mood today. Went around my house and neighbourhood to find what is rusting.

Being a Chemistry Coach, i believe that the easiest way to learn chemistry theories is to relate it to everything we can see in our everyday life. I call this method as ASSOCIATION.

In my education service, i used lots of Association, Analogies, Application and Accelerated Learning Techniques to coach my students.

And this video below is to make sure they learn chemistry in a more fun way.

My Education My Tools

Many would like to know my background education, and i thought the best way to tell you is to show you something that is always living in my mind. It is something so simple yet so important in my daily life when i was taking my education all the way to my Honours Degree in a local university. In fact, these days, i am still very in touch and dependent on this tool. Yeah - It is the PERIODIC TABLE. I am trained as an Applied Chemist in my education.

No need for me to explian this table to you i believe ....hahahaha

Who Says Chemistry is Boring?

Halo,

Have you heard of anyone who said Chemistry and other sciences are boring subjects?
I certainly disagree with that statement and have been relating to others between Chemistry Theories with Real Life examples and applications in order to convince them. Even with all these being done, i still have people coming to me and tell me that Chemistry is boring since there is no movies or songs that revolves around them.

Did we say Songs? Yes. I was searching for material in the internet and came across a song that is related to Chemistry and it has been around for several decades. This is going to be fun for those that study Chemistry before and an eye opener to those that claim we Chemists are boring.

We are talking about The Element Song by Tom Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and mathematician. He also lectured on Mathematics and musical theater. Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 60s. His work often parodied popular song forms, notably in "The Elements", where he sets the names of the chemcial elements to a tune from Gilbert and Sullivan.

Before we start, here is the Lyrics that you might want to sing along with:

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, cobalt, carbon, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.



How about looking at the position of each elements in the periodic table and see if Tom really covered all the known elements at that time in his The Element Song: