Mr Pang the Feng Shui master and the wierd lift

I have rather few lecturers now as I only take very few acedemic subjects. Mr Pang Nai Ho caught my eye as he is a humourous lecturer. He is feestock planning manager in Singapore Refining Company and he got Masters from NUS in 2002. He teaches part time in NUS, teachin Petroleum Refining. He is a caring husband and ferries his wife home after work except on the days which he come to NUS for lecturers which he will come home late.

He likes to invest in shares and made several jokes about the stock market. He said in one of his lectures that the STI dropped 150 points and he can see that those people who buy stocks have grey faces. Mr Pang said in another lecture that whenever he visit NUS to give lectures the stock market will fall, probably due to coincidence or that he is suay. Then he got say about to make money in the stock market overall, we cannot be too greedy or too smart, and must get burnt first before you gain experience on which stock to buy.

He also believes in Feng Shui and teaches a few theories on Feng Shui. He said that this year is a golden rat year and his friend who is a Feng Shui master said that Hillary Clinton will win the US election because she is born on the year of the rat. Then he said he is born on the year of ox and his wife is born on the year of rat (beginning of the year) but then then are born on the same solar year. But his analyst friend said that its better for Obama to win the election to improve the home loan debts of US citizens and the overall state of US economy.

Today, I went to the Singapore Refining Comapny plant for a site visit and Mr Pang was the site manager to bring us for a tour of the plant. He got show us the units for crude distillation, vacuum distillation, naphtha stabiliser, catalytic reformer, catalytic cracker, hydrocracker, hydrodesulphurisation unit, vistbreaker, storage tank for crude and products, steam methane reformer, water gas shift reactor, acid gas absorber, desalting unit and the furnaces. I saw some tadpoles swimming in a drain inside that plant, and Mr Pqang explained that the pollution controls inside the plant is good so the fishes and tadpoles can live in the drain and he said that some of the fry is actually luohan fish.

There is a funny incident in the lift of the catalytic cracker which he wants to bring us up the unit to have an overview of how the plant works and also the moving roof storage tank. He pressed several buttons and even the technician got help him to press the buttos but the lift door refused to close. The technician press on of the button outside and the door got close slightly but it won't close completely. So Mr Pang asked us to get out the lift and proceed on to other areas. Then he crack a joke saying that there is a story lift is haunted and the lift don't like our group of students so the door refused to close. Then my friend who used to work in SRC during his industrial attachment said that he need to kick the panel of the lift so that it will close and go up. This is the wierdest lift I seen in my life, even wierder than the lift I saw in the chalet with my friends in Marsiling (that lift will bounce when it reaches the first story). Not only there are many buttons in that lift that I don't know the use for them (maybe there is a control which will make the life move sideways), it also have a funny behavior.