Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

30 April. Tomorrow is Labour Day. Everywhere is going to be congested as people are rushing home, even today the traffic was bad.

Week 8 has just ended. *panic* This sem has been too fast. I didnt notice how fast the weeks are passing, until it just occur to me today that i have 4 more weeks left. *gasp* No idea why, but i think this sem has been in high speed, compared to last year, which i thought was quite fast, this sem passed through so so so FAST, that i havent been able to catch my breath for a moment. One month later, im going to take my finals and then this sem is done. WHOA!

Anyway, we went to Murni for dinner after design discussion. Everything there is OVER. It is overly-crowded, with cars and people. Seriously alot alot of people. The drinks are overly-sweet (non existence word), the foods have over-toomuch-variation (watermelon in ribena?chess garlic nun?). The place is overly-crammed, and overly-rated with over-management-skills (according to Jo). Guess the only thing reasonable there is the price. :) And, the drivers there are overly-skilled, seriously... Safety is priority. =s Someone actually blocked a junction by treating it as a car park. =s

Ok. Im overly-tired, talking gibberish already. Ciaoz

Warman is over. I am relieved that is over. No more Saturday's camping to complete our project.

Well, the competition was smooth. I was really nervous that when i launched the device by taking out the stopped i threw the stopper. Actually it flew out of my hands. I was so nervous that my hands were shaking. Anyway, it was a job well done. Thanks to my teammate. The project wouldnt go so smooth if it lacked either any of my teammates. Everyone took the initiative and put in alot of effort into this project. I enjoyed the process of working together as a team. Although it will be the first and last, but ya... Its cool. :)

Anyway this is our device:
Other teams' devices

Week 7, the week after Easter break and the busiest week of all. For TRC there is only two tests, 1 assignment and one project. Lucky for us. :) If not, we would have died. Actually i would have died. 1st test was Electronics and it was like a fatal lethal poison, where it kills you INSTANTLY. The paper was just plain hard, wait no, Very Very VERY EXTREMELY hard. The question are really based totally on your understanding, where nothing is given before (lectures and tutes).And if you have a slight doubt, you will difficulty answering the paper. It was just a to-die-for paper. Then there is Computing. Im fine with the paper, seeing that Electronics was so bloody hard, nothing can beat the difficulty.

Then after the two tests, at the end of the week, which is today, we are having our Warman competition. We are to build two devices to run a L-shaped track, one purely mechanical and one purely electrical. It starts with one device from the starting line, where it is required to run a certain distance with a baton, reaches the exchange area where the second device is placed. The first device then passes the baton to the second device, and the second device will continue the run to the finish line. Sounds easy? Sorta, but there is the speed taken into account. You got to be as fast as you can. :) But many consequences comes with speed and there must be a compromise with speed, if not the device might never make it to the finish line.

This is it, our 6 weeks hard work. Ok maybe just... 4 weeks, one day per week to be exact, is all in this 30 second to decide.

I attended this survey today, for 2 hours +, where you get RM100 as appreciation. Yup, its little work and good pay, so why not? The survey was about Universities in Malaysia. It was conducted by a research company. Things i would like to comment was definitely the toilet. Ignoring the fact it is dirty, there is also dead cockroach around the place, much to my disgust. Also, the coordinator of the survey ain't that good, let's just say he/she have much to improve... But the participant were quite chatty, thank godness. I joined group discussion before where the atmosphere was tense and really quiet. Luckily this time everyone was chipping in, giving their opinions.

Overall this survey was a worthwhile cause, not only you get paid, there is also free food, pizza and nugget. :) Although it did waste my time, seeing im lacking of it. Sigh, less time using the line then.

1 week of break for Easter, but i decided its actually one week of break of WORK.. WORK and WORK... We have to hand up an assignment on the Monday of the Sem break itself. The reason being, our lecturer think that we will completely forget about the assignment when we come back. Weird excuse i will say. Then when we come back from our break is where all the mid sem test is conducted, and the highlight of the week, our WARMAN project. One of the most important project among all, seeing it contributes 40% to our finals. Failing this is as good as failing this course and you dont even need to sit for the finals, wait you cant even sit the final exams. This sem most our units have this pre-req where you have to pass to internal to even take the external. Stressful.

This week has been hectic. Rushing WARMAN, doing computing,preparing for electronics; at least the week is over. One week break at least can sit down and study for the test.

*sigh*

Im sick of Electronics, i just spend 6 hours conducting our lab experiments, except we are experimenting failures more than results. We started at 10. Fixing everything, getting everything prepared, making sure everything worked before we actually start as there were some wire problems last week when we were doing ours. So our wires were fine after changing two, then we checked our signal generator, which went berserk when we turned it on. The frequency fluctuate like mad and refuse to stay on one frequency. So we changed that too. Then we got going. Conducting our experiment, until.. our lecturer came over to check our results. He pointed that our results are way out, and definitely wrong. So we fixed our circuit again, and showed him. It is definitely correct. He then claim the circuit has a problem, to our misery. After checking everything, he concluded our IC was spoiled, cause the output is 'clipped'. Great, so now our IC went berserk. So he gave us another and asked ur to try out before using it. AND the IC was spoiled AGAIN! We didnt know what to do. So our lecturer started to hands on. He went to try fix our IC. After an hour, he said everything is good. Asking what the reason he just said we changed many things, no idea what was wrong. o.O How unlucky can i be? What i saw was, our signal generator changed, the power generator changed, the wires changed, the circuit changed, not sure about the IC, basically everything was wrong. What a faulty circuit, with a faulty machine, and faulty wires, in a faulty lab and a faulty subject. Sigh....... So sick of IT!@!