Shit..I thought today is Wednesday, 3rd day of class, coz I had my first class on Wednesday this week. I woke up at 12.20pm as usual, and took a bath. Half way bathing, only I realized it's Friday, class starts on 12.30pm, and it was almost timed up and I was still taking my bath. Decided to skip the class instead of rushing myself badly, and end up late classing for 15 mins which will result in absence. After all, today's class is about graphing as told, I’m pretty much alright with that, just a little more effort needed to master it.
Damn, presentation nightmare struck me again, having 2 presentations on the coming 2 weeks. Review presentation-curve sketching, and ISU presentation. Thankfully, for the ISU presentation, we're allowed to choose our preferred group mates, or I’ll be really fed up working with some idiots. As for the review presentation, I’m gonna prepare the slide and some questions during this weekend, I really hate staying back after class and discuss about it with group mate. I admit that I can do much better on my own, since I used to accept others' ideas to avoid all sorts of unnecessary arguments, but then the product is not what I wished to see. Perhaps I really need to learn how to carry out group works nicely.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
29 Oct
Just managed to switch on my computer after >100 trials, there was some problem with the graphic card since last month, just don’t feel like fixing it, it's way too hassle to send it to HP Tower again. As long as it don’t go too wild, I’ll just let it be until my sem break, then I’ll send it to HP centre locates at Bercham.
Phew...I’m having a really fatigue day. Was watching drama until 2.30am, woke up at 6am, caught a taxi at 7.25am, arrived at Sunway at 10.45am, went to class on 12.15pm, finished class at 4.00pm, and had my computer turned on 5pm. Really damn sleepy wei....The first time I almost fell asleep on class when lectures going on. Perhaps I need to prepare some toothpicks next time during such kind of situation, to keep my eyes open. Gonna get some sleeps now before having dinner with friends later. Ciao~
Phew...I’m having a really fatigue day. Was watching drama until 2.30am, woke up at 6am, caught a taxi at 7.25am, arrived at Sunway at 10.45am, went to class on 12.15pm, finished class at 4.00pm, and had my computer turned on 5pm. Really damn sleepy wei....The first time I almost fell asleep on class when lectures going on. Perhaps I need to prepare some toothpicks next time during such kind of situation, to keep my eyes open. Gonna get some sleeps now before having dinner with friends later. Ciao~
Friday, 24 October 2008
24 Oct
hey guys, never had an entry for exactly a month. Was being pretty good these days. Just feel like writing about my life at this moment.
I'm gonna finish my CIMP very soon, a total of less than 4 weeks of classes. Final exam fell on the last week of November, and my last paper ends on my birthday, what a coincidence, wish I can do really well on that. Am gonna be doing engineering after this, most probably at Taylor's UC. I had been scratching my head on all these stuff throughout these months. It's a twinning program, BEng(1+2) or MEng(2+2). They're both undergraduate. Humbly say, I can get into both types of degrees, but what really matters me is money. 2 years in UK is gonna cost up to RM200k+-, and I guess my parents can hardly afford that within 2 years. Furthermore, each year spent in Malaysia costs around RM40k. So the total would be either 240k or 280k. Hence, my friend and I came out with a solution, instead of 1+2, we make it as 2+1, but as far as I heard, in order to be recognized by IMechE, ECUK (Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Council of UK), one has to study at a particular university for 2 years, or he/she is just a normal engineer after graduation, and not eligible to own any title(CEng, IEng, Ir and so on), which is valuable for engineers. On the other hand, I received a different idea from the UK side(U of Birmingham and IMechE, ECUK), ECUK claimed that it's all depends on the school itself, while UoB replied that spending 1 year in their school is always alright for a recognized engineer.
Until we went to Taylor's UC yesterday, the counselor fetched us back to out very first problem, which is spending 2 years in UK is a must. Sigh...and the Malay told that there's another Engineer Board, IEB, International Engineering Board. I went home and searched google'ed that, guess what? IEB is Institution of Engineering, BANGLADESH. WTH!! I doubted that she had outdated, or she failed in memorizing stuff. Whatever it is, I’m gonna submit the application form after I came back from Deepavali, as well as calling the UK side once again to double confirm.
I'm gonna finish my CIMP very soon, a total of less than 4 weeks of classes. Final exam fell on the last week of November, and my last paper ends on my birthday, what a coincidence, wish I can do really well on that. Am gonna be doing engineering after this, most probably at Taylor's UC. I had been scratching my head on all these stuff throughout these months. It's a twinning program, BEng(1+2) or MEng(2+2). They're both undergraduate. Humbly say, I can get into both types of degrees, but what really matters me is money. 2 years in UK is gonna cost up to RM200k+-, and I guess my parents can hardly afford that within 2 years. Furthermore, each year spent in Malaysia costs around RM40k. So the total would be either 240k or 280k. Hence, my friend and I came out with a solution, instead of 1+2, we make it as 2+1, but as far as I heard, in order to be recognized by IMechE, ECUK (Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Council of UK), one has to study at a particular university for 2 years, or he/she is just a normal engineer after graduation, and not eligible to own any title(CEng, IEng, Ir and so on), which is valuable for engineers. On the other hand, I received a different idea from the UK side(U of Birmingham and IMechE, ECUK), ECUK claimed that it's all depends on the school itself, while UoB replied that spending 1 year in their school is always alright for a recognized engineer.
Until we went to Taylor's UC yesterday, the counselor fetched us back to out very first problem, which is spending 2 years in UK is a must. Sigh...and the Malay told that there's another Engineer Board, IEB, International Engineering Board. I went home and searched google'ed that, guess what? IEB is Institution of Engineering, BANGLADESH. WTH!! I doubted that she had outdated, or she failed in memorizing stuff. Whatever it is, I’m gonna submit the application form after I came back from Deepavali, as well as calling the UK side once again to double confirm.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Sept 23 : (
Well, 2 more months, and am gonna finish my Pre-U studies, and leave Sunway, no matter how good/bad is my achievement. Mid-term result came out last Thursday, pretty much like what I've predicted. I got 87 for MCV4U, and 73 for MHF4U. Not gonna talk about that. I've calculated my total average mark of best 6 subjects, it's 78.8. Approx. 2 more marks to go, I would say it's somehow easy and hard for me. It's hard for me to maintain the 87, as I’ll really stress myself very much to score 87 and above for every coursework, but it's easy for me to boost the MHF4U.
Frankly, I started to feel the stress. It's <2 months away from final exam. Before this, I promised to my own that I’ll get average 80 and above, but I’ve only got 78.8 so far. I received my previous MCV4U test paper just now; I don’t know what to say about that. Sometimes I really hate about prediction, but I’m kind of person who likes to know what's going to happen next therefore I’ll have preparation in my heart. So, I looked throughout the whole test paper before I handed it. Check thoroughly, and I doubted 3 marks will be deducted. Guess what? I got 23/30, 7, seven, sette, sept, δΈƒ marks had been deducted!! I was about to thump the table, and subsequently the 'F' word. I was seriously detested about myself, I had underestimated the question. I'm not longer standing on 87, probably 83/84. I don't know what to do, but bringing the disappointment all the way back home, and write them down instead of venting in front of friends.
I really can't afford to lose any of my marks, but I have to boost them up instead of feeling bad. I can't be the top, but I really hope that I’m touching the top. Well, contribution, sacrifices, willingness, and dedication are very much needed; I admit that I was playing kinda hard these days. No problem, uncountable tests and quizzes still around, I promised to me for the one last time, I’ll strive to do well in coming course works. I really feel sorry. :(
Frankly, I started to feel the stress. It's <2 months away from final exam. Before this, I promised to my own that I’ll get average 80 and above, but I’ve only got 78.8 so far. I received my previous MCV4U test paper just now; I don’t know what to say about that. Sometimes I really hate about prediction, but I’m kind of person who likes to know what's going to happen next therefore I’ll have preparation in my heart. So, I looked throughout the whole test paper before I handed it. Check thoroughly, and I doubted 3 marks will be deducted. Guess what? I got 23/30, 7, seven, sette, sept, δΈƒ marks had been deducted!! I was about to thump the table, and subsequently the 'F' word. I was seriously detested about myself, I had underestimated the question. I'm not longer standing on 87, probably 83/84. I don't know what to do, but bringing the disappointment all the way back home, and write them down instead of venting in front of friends.
I really can't afford to lose any of my marks, but I have to boost them up instead of feeling bad. I can't be the top, but I really hope that I’m touching the top. Well, contribution, sacrifices, willingness, and dedication are very much needed; I admit that I was playing kinda hard these days. No problem, uncountable tests and quizzes still around, I promised to me for the one last time, I’ll strive to do well in coming course works. I really feel sorry. :(
Monday, 15 September 2008
An entry?
Well, it's the mid of September, never had an entry for approximately 2 months. Kinda weird, as I totally had no idea about writing my life, days seemed going pretty smooth and calmer nowadays. Slept at 2-4pm (or 'earlier' sometimes), woke up at 12pm, going to school and back at 4pm. Surf the net, or going to the gym sometimes, and dinner at night. While all these keep recycling every day, I realized my days past really in the speed of rocket. Two more weeks I’m gonna be back to hometown for a short break. I actually felt like it's just a week of two away from my previous break, and now it's another break. In fact, today is the 4th week away from my last break. If you were to depict my life, u might want to imagine I’m on a study trip to Sunway instead of a plain study life.
Schooling is going on pretty well, but I really hate the Advanced Function (MHF4U) class. I felt it's just wasting my time learning some crap formulas and applications which are apparently useless and make no sense. I had actually learnt Advanced Function & Introductory Calculus (MCB4U) last semester, but I did pretty badly, hence I decided to retake the whole damn thing. What happens in this semester is that particular course had been split into two parts, which is Advanced Function, and Calculus & Vectors (MCV4U) (First 3 chapters from Geometry course which is no longer available). MHF4U is first 3 chapters of MCB4U, or you can call it 'basic'. Yeah, I’m doing both of them. What I really hate is, MHF4U uses a whole range of different formulas for all the 3 chapters, which are really crappy in my mind, furthermore, the application of knowledge is totally different with MCV4U course, since the formulas used are all different, and I would seriously prefer using MCV4U's formulas because they appear to be much much more sensible than those 'crappy calculation'. I have to admit that I score better in my MCV4U although it's much difficult than MHF4U, and I don’t feel like giving a damn to the MHF4U. I had calculated my average marks, given I score 90% in MCV4U, my average mark will breach the barrier of 80% even though I dropped that crappy course, or I can still take it to spend my time learning some crappy thing, which is not really harmful in my mind.
There's another outing with the trekking club this Saturday, still considering whether or not going, because there will be river crossing and stuff, not hoping to get myself wet after all. You may wear sandals, but it's a 2 hours trek, going down the mountain with bad footwear is suffering. I'm so afraid to fall sick again (Felt I wasn’t in good condition for a trek as I fell sick 2 weeks ago), sprained ankle and stuff, it's so dreadful.
Alright guys, it's time for surfing...Ciao!!
Schooling is going on pretty well, but I really hate the Advanced Function (MHF4U) class. I felt it's just wasting my time learning some crap formulas and applications which are apparently useless and make no sense. I had actually learnt Advanced Function & Introductory Calculus (MCB4U) last semester, but I did pretty badly, hence I decided to retake the whole damn thing. What happens in this semester is that particular course had been split into two parts, which is Advanced Function, and Calculus & Vectors (MCV4U) (First 3 chapters from Geometry course which is no longer available). MHF4U is first 3 chapters of MCB4U, or you can call it 'basic'. Yeah, I’m doing both of them. What I really hate is, MHF4U uses a whole range of different formulas for all the 3 chapters, which are really crappy in my mind, furthermore, the application of knowledge is totally different with MCV4U course, since the formulas used are all different, and I would seriously prefer using MCV4U's formulas because they appear to be much much more sensible than those 'crappy calculation'. I have to admit that I score better in my MCV4U although it's much difficult than MHF4U, and I don’t feel like giving a damn to the MHF4U. I had calculated my average marks, given I score 90% in MCV4U, my average mark will breach the barrier of 80% even though I dropped that crappy course, or I can still take it to spend my time learning some crappy thing, which is not really harmful in my mind.
There's another outing with the trekking club this Saturday, still considering whether or not going, because there will be river crossing and stuff, not hoping to get myself wet after all. You may wear sandals, but it's a 2 hours trek, going down the mountain with bad footwear is suffering. I'm so afraid to fall sick again (Felt I wasn’t in good condition for a trek as I fell sick 2 weeks ago), sprained ankle and stuff, it's so dreadful.
Alright guys, it's time for surfing...Ciao!!
Friday, 8 August 2008
It Rained 07.08.08
I haven’t been seeing a rain for almost 3 weeks which means there was no rain in Sunway for almost 3 weeks, it's kinda hard to imagine but it's true I swear. Fortunately (I don’t know if I should say 'unfortunately'), the sky rained this afternoon. Before I went into my Calculus class which is on 1.30pm, the sky is still showing good, not too sunny, right after 15 minutes of lectures, the sky started to rained heavily, even Ms. Najjar got to increase her volume since we're in the last classroom of the row, it would be loud when the rain touch the roof. It rained all the way until 4.30pm, and then only it turned into drizzle.
Why did I say it was an unfortunate rain? I bought 2 tubs of protein and creatine powder through the line. Supposedly today I thought to get back to my house once the class dismisses, and get myself ready to Sunway Pyramid for fitness. Before that, I should have done the payment to the supplement company before 5 pm; therefore they can ship the product to me, such that I can receive it by Friday. Drizzle seemed doesn’t get better after 5 pm, so my friend and I decided to go to Orange Restaurant to buy a waffle, and catch the bus back at the side gate. Well...we made it eventually.
Here comes the disaster, we were almost the last person to hop into the bus. Although the bus had no more seats for us anymore, luckily there was still plenty of space for us to stand on. The bus moved on, and stopped simultaneously, and passengers are getting more and more within a short distance. UNTIL the bus stop at Sun-U Residence, whole damn large gang of Malay aunty stepped into the bus, I would call them a 'gang', because it was really a HUGE gang, about 10-15 people. Too bad, they successfully made themselves into the bus, and we moved on. I pressed the ring and planned to stop in front of Sunway Medical Centre, and planned to make my own way back to my house, but the problem was, I can’t even make my own way out of the bus, ended up the bus driver shouted on 'Siapa nak turun?!!', nobody replied and I kept silence.
The bus stopped again after 5 minutes at Lagoon Perdana, all the aunty went down, a second gang came into the bus again, and I was thinking WhereTF is all these guys going, around 15 people again. Luckily most of them are males, I can tolerate better with males. After that stop, I had no choice anymore but got to go down the bus at Palm Ville Condominium, which is around 5 minutes walk to my house. I pressed the button, the bus stopped, and I 'shouted' 'Excuse Me' all the way going down the bus.
Phew....the moment out from the bus was damn relaxing; imagine when you're in a gathering suddenly go into a silent room. I fucking told myself NEVER ever take a bus going back again even though it's raining cats and dogs, I would rather get myself wet, but seriously don’t wanna challenge my patience once again, taking a bus on peak hours is not something better than walking back!! Never ever fucking try it!!
Why did I say it was an unfortunate rain? I bought 2 tubs of protein and creatine powder through the line. Supposedly today I thought to get back to my house once the class dismisses, and get myself ready to Sunway Pyramid for fitness. Before that, I should have done the payment to the supplement company before 5 pm; therefore they can ship the product to me, such that I can receive it by Friday. Drizzle seemed doesn’t get better after 5 pm, so my friend and I decided to go to Orange Restaurant to buy a waffle, and catch the bus back at the side gate. Well...we made it eventually.
Here comes the disaster, we were almost the last person to hop into the bus. Although the bus had no more seats for us anymore, luckily there was still plenty of space for us to stand on. The bus moved on, and stopped simultaneously, and passengers are getting more and more within a short distance. UNTIL the bus stop at Sun-U Residence, whole damn large gang of Malay aunty stepped into the bus, I would call them a 'gang', because it was really a HUGE gang, about 10-15 people. Too bad, they successfully made themselves into the bus, and we moved on. I pressed the ring and planned to stop in front of Sunway Medical Centre, and planned to make my own way back to my house, but the problem was, I can’t even make my own way out of the bus, ended up the bus driver shouted on 'Siapa nak turun?!!', nobody replied and I kept silence.
The bus stopped again after 5 minutes at Lagoon Perdana, all the aunty went down, a second gang came into the bus again, and I was thinking WhereTF is all these guys going, around 15 people again. Luckily most of them are males, I can tolerate better with males. After that stop, I had no choice anymore but got to go down the bus at Palm Ville Condominium, which is around 5 minutes walk to my house. I pressed the button, the bus stopped, and I 'shouted' 'Excuse Me' all the way going down the bus.
Phew....the moment out from the bus was damn relaxing; imagine when you're in a gathering suddenly go into a silent room. I fucking told myself NEVER ever take a bus going back again even though it's raining cats and dogs, I would rather get myself wet, but seriously don’t wanna challenge my patience once again, taking a bus on peak hours is not something better than walking back!! Never ever fucking try it!!
Monday, 4 August 2008
Gunung Datuk (2-8-08)
Yeah, finally we have had our very first trek on last Saturday to Gunung Datuk located at Rembau, Negeri Sembilan. I woke up around 6 am in Saturday morning, get myself ready and walked to school with my friend. We had our light breakfast on the restaurant beside our school, and registered ourselves at the foyer meanwhile. There were not only CIMP students, but few students who're from SIS. We registered ourselves with Mr. Plouffe, and received our safety kit with a whistle from Ms. Colins. Right on the proposed time, 8am, we walked out from the school to catch our bus.
After 45 minutes on the highway, we stopped at Seremban's R&R to take a break, and breakfast for some of them. I bought a pack of Oreo’s at Shell petrol station, in case I have insufficient of food. We continued our journey after 15 minutes and headed towards Rembau. The whole journey took us around 1 hour and 30 minutes. We reached the foot of the mountain around 10 am and started our trek.
We had our warm up done in a very interesting way, which was a very simple exercise, but it actually works out every part of our body. We stepped into the mountain on 10.15am by crossing a river, continued by climbing up the mountain. Gunung Datuk is 870m high, and took around two and a half hours to get to the peak with moderate speed. After 15 minutes of trek, I found my stamina is getting weaker due to the almost 60 degree inclined path on the first part of trek. I had been taking rests for few times within an hour. The 2nd part of the trek is basically pretty smooth, we just need to walk on the slope, and sometimes climb up some rocks and jump over some trunks. Well, I was in the second last team of the trek, due to our weak stamina and lack of experiences on trekking. During our journey to the peak, we were caught in some rain, but luckily it was not heavy, and it actually fresh us up, not bad though. The last part of the trek was towards the peak, lecturer kept on convincing us by telling how close we are to the top, and giving us something to chew with, it was really encouraging.
At around 1.30pm, we reached the top, where there was a flat area for us to have our lunch and rest. Right behind the area, there were some HUGE rocks, stacked up together naturally and formed the peak. We needed to get to the peak by climbing up the ladder, which was actually betting our life to get the breathtaking scenery; one slip may cause unwanted fatality. I took care of every of my steps and made sure that I was brave enough to get to the peak, which was really dangerous I would say. However, I managed to climb up to the peak finally, and I was really excited at that moment. We took quite a lot of photos on the peak and stayed up there for around 30 mins long. After we had our group photos up there, everyone came down one by one carefully and take our very last rest before we go down the mountain.
At 2.30pm sharp, we started to go down the mountain team by team. Due to the drizzle, the path was somehow slippery, we needed to have a very nice grip on the surface, and we held on branches and root all the way down the mountain to prevent ourselves from falling down. Some SIS 'child' who were still pretty naive, were RUNNING down the mountain, but in the end they made it successfully without any unwanted injuries. We arrived at the bottom after one and a half hour, which was a pretty satisfying duration for me. Going down is so much easier, but it kills our leg strength very much.
Some of them took of their shoes and rinsed their leg into the mini-waterfall to refresh them, while I just washed my hand and necks to fresh up myself. While waiting for the rest of the guys to come down, we had a chat with lecturers, and finally we went into the changing room to get our cloths changed. After 1 hour, everyone get back to the bus, and we headed back to Sunway. During our journey back, we shared our food together by passing around in the bus, it was pretty fun and enjoyable. I slept in the bus after 30 minutes, until we reached the toll plaza of LDP. We arrived at Sunway around 6.30pm. I had my dinner with my buddy at restaurant nearby and walked back to our house respectively.
Overall, personally I would say this is a very nice and enjoyable experience for every one of us. I believe that every trekker was really enjoying the trek, although it was somehow tough for beginners. I've got to know with a lot of friends, and got myself close to the nature. In another sense, I had also strengthened up my stamina, and I’m really looking forward to the coming trek.
After 45 minutes on the highway, we stopped at Seremban's R&R to take a break, and breakfast for some of them. I bought a pack of Oreo’s at Shell petrol station, in case I have insufficient of food. We continued our journey after 15 minutes and headed towards Rembau. The whole journey took us around 1 hour and 30 minutes. We reached the foot of the mountain around 10 am and started our trek.
We had our warm up done in a very interesting way, which was a very simple exercise, but it actually works out every part of our body. We stepped into the mountain on 10.15am by crossing a river, continued by climbing up the mountain. Gunung Datuk is 870m high, and took around two and a half hours to get to the peak with moderate speed. After 15 minutes of trek, I found my stamina is getting weaker due to the almost 60 degree inclined path on the first part of trek. I had been taking rests for few times within an hour. The 2nd part of the trek is basically pretty smooth, we just need to walk on the slope, and sometimes climb up some rocks and jump over some trunks. Well, I was in the second last team of the trek, due to our weak stamina and lack of experiences on trekking. During our journey to the peak, we were caught in some rain, but luckily it was not heavy, and it actually fresh us up, not bad though. The last part of the trek was towards the peak, lecturer kept on convincing us by telling how close we are to the top, and giving us something to chew with, it was really encouraging.
At around 1.30pm, we reached the top, where there was a flat area for us to have our lunch and rest. Right behind the area, there were some HUGE rocks, stacked up together naturally and formed the peak. We needed to get to the peak by climbing up the ladder, which was actually betting our life to get the breathtaking scenery; one slip may cause unwanted fatality. I took care of every of my steps and made sure that I was brave enough to get to the peak, which was really dangerous I would say. However, I managed to climb up to the peak finally, and I was really excited at that moment. We took quite a lot of photos on the peak and stayed up there for around 30 mins long. After we had our group photos up there, everyone came down one by one carefully and take our very last rest before we go down the mountain.
At 2.30pm sharp, we started to go down the mountain team by team. Due to the drizzle, the path was somehow slippery, we needed to have a very nice grip on the surface, and we held on branches and root all the way down the mountain to prevent ourselves from falling down. Some SIS 'child' who were still pretty naive, were RUNNING down the mountain, but in the end they made it successfully without any unwanted injuries. We arrived at the bottom after one and a half hour, which was a pretty satisfying duration for me. Going down is so much easier, but it kills our leg strength very much.
Some of them took of their shoes and rinsed their leg into the mini-waterfall to refresh them, while I just washed my hand and necks to fresh up myself. While waiting for the rest of the guys to come down, we had a chat with lecturers, and finally we went into the changing room to get our cloths changed. After 1 hour, everyone get back to the bus, and we headed back to Sunway. During our journey back, we shared our food together by passing around in the bus, it was pretty fun and enjoyable. I slept in the bus after 30 minutes, until we reached the toll plaza of LDP. We arrived at Sunway around 6.30pm. I had my dinner with my buddy at restaurant nearby and walked back to our house respectively.
Overall, personally I would say this is a very nice and enjoyable experience for every one of us. I believe that every trekker was really enjoying the trek, although it was somehow tough for beginners. I've got to know with a lot of friends, and got myself close to the nature. In another sense, I had also strengthened up my stamina, and I’m really looking forward to the coming trek.
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