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Finally a this happened, YES! my subconcious had been wishing and praying for that to happen for quite some time as my mood was lifted immediately upon reading this. Imagine what goes in the announcement: "...ladies and gentlemen please note that all electronic equipment, players and mobile phones are to be switched off during the whole duration of the flight..bla bla....." and then.. "..good morning passengers this is the captain speaking and would like to apologise for the flight delay...because i lost my mobile phone in the plane...i forgot to switch it off..."
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| very boy wants to be a pilot.
One of the reasons i studied
engineering is because I like planes, and i don't have any problems
staying 24/7 inside an airport, i really like it. i've stayed in 4
airports overnight and i always like the experience, it'll be even
greater if i can fly one of those bad boys.
so can i be physically be a pilot?
I checked out this site thru google (another of my many adventures while trying to do my project)
i'm near-sighted, currently my prescription stands at
Right -3.00 Left -4.25
this forum says its ok as long as it can be corrected (spectacles)
i need to be at least 5ft 4in tall, i'm...let me see...2cm short of 6ft, phew.
i'm an engineering student, so that means i am in the forefront of competition if i apply to be one.
British
Airways have a program that i can train and if possible serve with BA
in the future, with a contract of 5 years to repay it.
there are other options, like msia airlines that gives the same thing, with 15 years.
should i go for it? i'm stuck, i like to fly one of the planes...really do.
and the all important question...the WAGES~ and the PERKS~
WAGES~~$183,000
per annum (luftansa), or roughly £83,000 as a captain, which is
achievable after 2~5 years after graduating from flight school. but
normally other smaller airlines seems to offer about $60,000 per annum,
still not bad...
PERKS~walk like a VIP anywhere in the airport
wearing great uniform that people just admires...and become a guy's
guy, guys like pilots! and girls too~especially the hostess :p. i also
get to see alot of countries FREE! yahoo!
NOT SO GOOD
SIDE~~flying everyday~fly fly fly~~which means a pilot's personal life
wil most probably be thrown in tantrums...my poor family and girlfren
will miss me alot...unless they fly with me too...sadly pilots have a high rate of divorce...also
greenpeace people will give pilots a hard time (if they ever ran into
one)...flying a plane...costs (provide may be the better word) the
earth the amount of carbon dioxide of a normal urban car for 2 years,
warming the globe at a faster pace~
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| boring boring boring
first of all, what the FUCK is a mechanical engineering course have to
do with computational programming in MEDICAL FIELD?? "computer aided
medical diagnosis" as a dissertation???
its bloody hard to try to do all the work of a computer science
bachelor degree in a month! WAKE UP SWANSEA UNI, u BLOODY blood sucking
bloody uni!!!
now is that how i should behave?
its just frustration, i guess this course really gv me more than my
fair share of a miserable future career as a mechanical engineer.
now i realise how hard it is to motivate oneself to do something that
really really isn't of any interest watsoever. may this stupid
dissertation be finished quickly and as painless (already painful) as
possible and let the bliss of nothing-to-do-ness of post-hand-up-work
times begins...
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| I ran into Alvins blog. and found something worth thinking.
| If you are not seeking the Lord, the Devil is seeking you... |
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great words.
however i have a totally different appreciation for it, not in the theological/religious sense, rather in a philosophical realization.
u c, i strongly believe that people need to believe in some kind of higher power, or purpose in it's life. the most common form is religion, where people believe there's god/gods up there somewhere, and that gives them their purpose of life. the other form may well be in science or some other cult, or being involved in patriotism, or just money-worship. losing all sense of purpose generally lead u to one or all of the two conclusions: madness (due to constant searching of beliefs and purpose), and suicide (in some cases however that stems in the belief of an afterlife, because u can 'start over').
Being brought up as a chinese-buddhist-with-strong-cultural-heritage-and-taoism-confuism-influence person, plus being a malaysian (hence the brushes with islam, hinduism, chirtianity) and also being in a modern world (free-thinker-ism and Darwinsim) and a man-of-science (thanks to my engineering experiences and national geography readings), its hard to immerse oneself into any form of believe. (pretty sad huh?)
u might think: well i maybe can grab a hold on science as a belief. NO i don't. remember the previous post, even science may only be a relative truth, believing totally in science almost certainly will drive u into the 'mad-obsessed-scientist-that-believe-there's-no-bloody-ghost' category.
...to be continued...(need to catch up on work)
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