Tronoh Tales

Year 2005, the year I first stepped my foot on this land. Together with a number of school-leavers who aspired to pursue our dreams, we started to acclimatize ourselves with this foreign territory and get to know the people who came from different corners of world.

Seeking knowledge in this alma mater is one thing, and for sure, it had never been easy. But the real challenge is how we survived to overcome the obstacles that were laid ahead of us. The language barrier, cultural differences and many more had somehow moulded us to be resilient and not to give up easily. But yet, these shortcomings colour our life in here and opened up new perspective on how we see the world now.

The time flies, and enter year 2010. After years of hardships, failures, heart-breaks, we finally came to the end. I wish to congratulate all of us who have been able to surpass our own limit, and here we are the graduates of UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS. Happy Convocation!

p/s: Engineering futures, are we ready now?

World Through My Window

Ku sangkakan panas sampai ke petang rupa-rupanya petang hujan juga. Mari tido!!!!

 Pagi - perfect untuk membasuh baju (tapi aku gunekan Daia untuk pengeringan di dalam rumah)

 Petang - hujan lebat beserta ribut petir di satu dua tempat di Tronoh [ayat laporan kajicuaca]

Penguatkuasaan Bermusim

TRONOH - Kesesakan berlaku di Kompleks Imigresen sebuah universiti di sini hari ini telah menyebabkan kenderaan beratur panjang untuk keluar dari kawasan berkenaan. Kesesakan itu dipercayai akibat penguatkuasaan bermusim agensi keselamatan universiti berkenaan yang mengeluarkan arahan untuk memeriksa ruang 'boot' setiap kenderaan yang ingin keluar dari kawasan universiti berkenaan.

Kesesakan yang berlaku di pintu utama mengundang rasa kurang senang sesetengah pihak

Operation Management

From Wikipedia:

Operations management is an area of business concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient  in terms of using as little resource as needed, and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements. It is concerned with managing the process that converts inputs (in the forms of materials, labour and energy) into outputs (in the form of goods and services).

My 'date' with OM is due tomorrow at 1430H~

Hell's Weeks, The Finale

I hope this will be my last time I crack my head, amin...

18 May 2010, 0900H~1200H @ Main Hall

ENGINEERS IN SOCIETY

20 May 2010, 1430H~1730H @ Multi Purpose Hall

ELECTRICAL MACHINES II

22 May 2010, 1430H~1730H @ Main Hall

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

31 May 2010, 1430H~1730H @ Main Hall

MODERN CONTROL ENGINEERING

Take a look how three (3) exams are cramped in only one week and notice the 1 week gap between 3rd and 4th paper. Anyway, this is the war I have to face. Brave the wave! To all my fellow readers who will be sitting for final exam, good luck and let's do our best! :)

p/s: Pareto Law states that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Does this mean if we put 20% of effort will yield 80% of success? I wish this law is true for all events, but not for event of final exams! '-_-

Selamat Hari Guru

Hari Guru disambut pada setiap hari yang ke-16 dalam bulan Mei sebagai tanda untuk memperingati jasa dan pengorbanan guru yang telah bersusah payah memerah keringat dalam menjalankan tugas mulia mereka mendidik anak bangsa menjadi insan yang cemerlang. Peranan mereka dalam membentuk masyarakat yang berilmu dan beradab sememangnya amat penting dalam membina sebuah tamadun. Lantas tidak hairanlah lazimnya dalam pembentangan bajet untuk setiap Rancangan Malaysia bajet untuk sektor pendidikan mendapat jumlah yang tertinggi berbanding sektor lain seperti pertahanan.

Saya secara peribadi tidak memandang guru sebagai insan yang hanya memberi tunjuk ajar sahaja, tetapi saya suka memandang mereka sebagai jurutera, jurutera masyarakat. Jika kita melihat tugas lazim seorang jurutera, jurutera bertanggungjawab dalam mereka bentuk, merancang dan menyelenggara sesebuah mesin, bangunan, jambatan dan sebagainya. Begitu jugalah dengan tugas guru. Malah ruang lingkup tugas mereka sebenarnya lebih besar dari seorang jurutera kerana subjek sasaran mereka bukanlah sebuah mesin tetapi manusia. Membentuk manusia adalah lebih sukar daripada mereka bentuk mesin kerana manusia mempunyai ragam dan emosi yang pelbagai. Maka, memang sewajarnyalah hasil titik peluh dan cetusan idea mereka mendapat penghargaan dari masyarakat.

Mengimbau kenangan Hari Guru, saya teringat tentang sambutan Hari Guru di SDAR semasa saya di Tingkatan 5. Saya telah diberi tanggungjawab di bahagian permainan sempena sambutan Hari Guru 2004. Jadi, saya dan pasukan saya (AJK Permainan, siapa-siapa yang berkenaan sila mengaku) telah merancang permainan berdasarkan kepada rancangan Explorace yang popular di TV3 itu. Permainan tersebut terdiri daripada pasukan guru dan pelajar. Antara cabaran-cabaran yang terdapat dalam permainan tersebut adalah makan sepinggan mee goreng (yeke sepinggan?) selepas berlari dari 'checkpoint' yang sebelumnya kemudian berlari (dengan perut yang penuh selepas makan mee goreng) ke kolam ikan di blok pentadbiran. Cabarannya ialah menangkap ikan tilapia merah dengan menggunakan tangan. Maka berbondong-bondonglah para peserta terjun ke dalam kolam yang airnya hijau berlumut itu. Kepada pasukan guru yang terlibat, kalau ada salah dan silap dari pihak saya dan AJK yang terbabit, saya memohon maaf. Saya harap acara itu menjadi kenangan yang indah buat semua yang terlibat. Lagipun saya tahu, cikgu-cikgu SDAR semuanya cool. Heheh~

Di kesempatan ini, saya ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Guru kepada guru-guru saya, terutamanya dua guru terhebat saya, En. Mohd. Sadli bin Abd. Hamid dan Pn. Siti Banun bt Ayob (ibu bapa saya juga seorang guru, huhuhu~), guru-guru di SK Sri Langat, Banting (terutamanya guru-guru yang mengajar di kelas 1 Orkid, 2 Orkid, 3 Orkid, 4 Cempaka, 5 Cempaka dan 6 Cempaka), guru-guru di Sekolah Dato' Abdul Razak (terutamanya guru-guru yang mengajar di Sikamat: 1 Ungku Omar, 2 Ungku Omar; Sungai Gadut: 3 Ungku Omar, 4 Al-Razi, dan 5 Al-Razi) dan pensyarah-pensyarah di Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (Kejuruteraan Elektrikal & Elektronik). To all teachers, you are the best engineer in the world nonetheless, designing and maintaining good civilization throughout the world. :)

p/s: Belajar Terus Belajar, Berilmu Untuk Berjasa, Engineering Futures

Designing Destiny

I am alone in my room overlooking the damp soil of Tronoh that I am about to leave very soon. Yeah, it is drizzling right now but it is enough to give the moist and cool breeze through my window. It really gives off soothing feeling to me. Being alone like this always make me ponder about many things. Accompanied by lovely Liyana Fizi latest release, "Light Writing" and few dose of Sitti Navarro's jazz tunes, my mind start working and pondering about my destiny.

Being an engineering student, the word "design" is no stranger to me. Designing something is not as easy as it seems. Various factors need to be taken into consideration and the final design decision must be feasible and logical for implementation. I am always structure my mind to work like this and this is how I decide things although people always see me as a laid back person.

I just completed my poster evaluation as one of the requirement for my FYP (Final Year Project) completion. Alhamdulillah, everything turned out well without any glitches. And Mr. Z reassured his students with some convincing words about the evaluation result although we can easily sensed he was being sarcastic at that time or he was showing off to other students that he is the best supervisor in the world. Hehehe... Anyway, he is a good lecturer indeed and any weaknesses is acceptable as nobody is perfect, right? Alhamdulillah again, I passed the ability test as one of the requirement for securing job at PETRONAS and qualified for Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ). I hope that I have proven to them that I am the suitable future employee from the OPQ process and move on to Structured Interview (SI) afterward.

These two occurrences had actually made me ponder about my future. About how should I design my destiny. I know there is no time to waste. I should start thinking about the path that I am about to take. I have devised few feasible options to start my move. Taking all factors into account, I know this is isn't an easy task to do. There will be many variables that could hinder me from achieving my objectives. Nothing will be smooth sailing during the process. I started contacting my friends, and I had a long chat with my friend in SDAR, Mr. Kuch. We talked about the need of friends for networking and expanding our career. With prayers and encouragement from my parent and family, I hope things will be as smooth-sailing as possible. It will be not much of time left for me to start my endeavour in real world, I feel excited and anxious at the same time. Designing destiny must be achievable but it is not wrong to aim big, in fact everyone of us should aim big for our future. :)

Bisul

Today I woke up with extremely cold feet despite the hot sunny day of Tronoh. Quickly I realized that I was going to get struck by fever. Strangely, there was no flu or runny nose that usually comes with the fever. I stayed in the room till the afternoon to wait for the weather to go shady and went to UTP clinic for medical consultation. Thanks to the 'friendly' Dr. Baron Von Varun-look-alike, the fever is caused by abscess at my right underarm. Lesson learnt here that we have to tell everything about what we feel to the doctor. Usually I just neglected the pain thinking it is usual for me to have sore muscle when I got fever. Now I know that an abscess can knock me down with fever. So he prescribed me with antibiotic and usual paracetamol 650g pills. I hope the abscess will heal with the antibiotic, or else I'll have to get incision at the abscess to remove the pus. Ouch!

Countdown

Flash Countdown

When I was in SDAR, the blackboard (later whiteboard in our new campus) is divided into two main parts. Occupying let say, 90% of the writing space is for writing lesson materials (eg. notes, diagrams, the usual stuff) and the remaining 10% and located on the right side of the board is for other information such as attendance (which is 100% for most of the day) and countdowns. There are certain types of countdowns appeared. When I was in Form 3, the countdown would be for days before PMR and when I was in Form 5 it was for SPM. But there's another countdown that is applicable to all students in the school, countdown before we leave for vacation at home. This is the moment all students were waiting for. Usually the countdown starts 2 weeks before the day we are allowed to go home and will be updated daily. On the D-day (vacation day), the countdown are updated hourly, and on the last hour (usually the last day of school will be on Friday, so we are allowed to go home after performing Friday prayer at school first) we even updated the countdown every 15 minutes! It just reflected how we were so excited about going home and enjoy some moment of lucidity at home. Free at last! And today, I just can't wait to be at home for mid-semester break! Forget FYP, forget the upcoming Electrical Machines II test and forget everything! This desert of Tronoh is killing me! Hehehehe~

p/s: This countdown is until Operational Management lecture end at 2.00 pm~

Kasut

Peringatan: Mungkin mengandungi bahasa-bahasa kasar.

Untuk mendapat lebih kefahaman tentang post ini, sila rujuk di pautan ini.

Pelbagai perkara boleh dikaitkan dengan kasut sejak akhir-akhir ini. Ada yang dipenjara kerana membaling kasut ke arah seorang pemimpin negara yang melabelkan dirinya sebagai 'Polis Dunia', seorang pemimpin parti politik 'communal' (parti politik berasaskan kaum) ingin mengkalungkan selipar (juga termasuk dalam kategori kasut) ke leher seorang negarawan ulung dek kerana percanggahan idea politik; dan yang terbaru, seorang tukang kasut warganegara Malaysia telah dibelasah oleh sekumpulan pelajar ASING di salah sebuah universiti di Tronoh (masih ingat dengan ayat ini yang pernah dikeluarkan dalam satu laporan jenayah di akhbar yang sama beberapa ketika dahulu?). Kasut sekarang bukan sahaja digunakan sebagai alas kaki, malah pelbagai perkara boleh dikaitkan dengan kasut. Betapa berpengaruhnya kasut di zaman ini sehingga menjangkau bukan sahaja di peringkat nasional, malah ke peringkat antarabangsa.

Aku berasa maruah aku sebagai anak Malaysia diinjak-injak oleh SEGELINTIR pelajar asing yang menuntut ilmu di sini. Perbuatan mereka menyerang rakyat tempatan amat-amat tidak boleh diterima sama sekali seolah-olah merekalah yang paling berkuasa di tanah bertuah ini.

Lebih mengaibkan (aku harap perkara ini tidak betul), pentadbiran institusi pendidikan tinggi tersebut (yang sudah semestinya ditadbir oleh orang-orang tempatan) cuba menutup mulut rakyat tempatan yang membuat laporan tentang serangan tersebut untuk menjaga reputasi institusi pendidikan mereka. Bagi aku, jika hendak mencari PENGKHIANAT BANGSA, kita tidak perlu melihat jauh. Tidak perlu menjadi ejen rahsia untuk negara lain dan membocorkan rahsia kerajaan dan tidak perlu sembah derhaka kepada sultan, hanya lihat kepada mereka ini sudah cukup untuk menjadi seorang pengkhianat bangsa. Sanggup melihat bangsa sendiri tidak terbela atas nama 'maintaining healthy diplomatic relationship'.

Satu contoh lagi pengkhianat bangsa boleh dilihat pada anak bangsa yang diberi kuasa untuk menguatkuasakan undang-undang. Tetapi mereka hanya berani mengambil tindakan ke atas orang tempatan yang melakukan kesalahan, tetapi membutakan mata dan memekakkan telinga mereka jika warga asing melakukan kesalahan.

Bagi aku, memang selayaknya warga asing yang melakukan serangan itu diberkas polis. Belasah dulu cukup-cukup di balai polis (inilah masanya polis menggunakan kekerasan di jalan yang betul, bukan hanya berani membelasah pelajar-pelajar tempatan yang membuat demonstrasi secara aman walaupun aku tidak pernah bersetuju dan menyokong tindakan pelajar mennyertai demonstrasi politik, entah-entah mendaftar sebagai pengundi pun belum lagi dah pandai nak bercakap pasal politik). Selepas itu tarik balik visa pelajar dan hantar mereka pulang ke negara asal mereka. Mereka memang tidak layak duduk di sini jika tidak tahu menghormati budaya tempatan sedangkan pelajar kita di negara mereka sangat menghormati budaya mereka di sana.

Untuk pengkhianat-pengkhianat bangsa ini, aku harap mereka sedar. Mereka diberi kuasa untuk memastikan keharmonian semua orang tidak kira warga tempatan ataupun asing. Menjaga hubungan diplomatik yang baik bukan bermakna kita harus menerima setiap perlakuan baik buruk warga asing tersebut TETAPI mereka seharusnya mengajar warga asing ini tentang budaya masyarakat tempatan dan menghormatinya. Ajar mereka budaya kita, "di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung".

Khusus untuk warga negara asing yang satu ini, lagak mereka tidaklah aku pelik sangat. Benar, negara mereka mempunyai sebuah institusi pengajian Islam yang tertua dan terulung di dunia serta banyak mengeluarkan fatwa berkaitan agama Islam, namun itu hanya untuk sarjana-sarjana agama mereka yang tidak terkesan oleh dasar politik negara itu sendiri. Tapi, melihat kepada dasar mereka di peringkat antarabangsa, negara ini memang terkenal dengan dasar yang menyembelih rakan seagama mereka sendiri. Negara mana yang sanggup menutup pintu sempadan mereka kepada konvoi-konvoi bantuan kemanusiaan ke wilayah bergolak Palestin jika bukan negara ini? Harus diingat bahawa rakyat negara ini beragama Islam dan Kristian dan rakyat Palestin yang ditindas Yahudi Israel juga beragama Islam dan Kristian. Sebab itulah aku mengatakan negara ini sanggup menyembelih rakan seagama mereka sendiri. Jadi, perlakuan biadap pelajar mereka disini tidaklah menghairankan sangat jika kita kaji dasar politik antarabangsa mereka sendiri.


p/s: Aku sangat berharap pendirian yang tegas serta tidak tunduk kepada tekanan asing canselor institusi pendidikan ini semasa mentadbir negara dahulu dapat diaplikasikan di institusi ini.

Mind your language

I am writing this in response to a note posted by one of my friend on Facebook. I gave a second thought before commenting directly to his note, this long post should be shared with everyone who want to improve their language.

Good grammar is very important to give good first impression to the reader. Proper use of language will also improve the presentation of the paper. No matter how good the work is, but it will become useless if the researcher fails to present his/her work to the target audiences due to improper use of language and grammatical error. It will make the report looks not professional to the reader and it will be a laughing stock to the informed reader if this problem is not taken seriously. The lecturer must have expected your friend to have language proficiency that is on par with the status as a university student. Harsh comment from lecturer is expected but the comment is totally impersonal in nature, they just want their student to improve. That's all. Looking at the current scenario in any publications by UTP students, the level of English is very poor. Take MPPUTP as example, frankly I look down on them due to spelling errors, silly grammar and word usage mistakes in their publication. Poor language=poor in professionalism. Remember, the first impression matters. If the language is hard to understand, how the readers can understand what are being fed by the writer in his/her writings? In my situation as an engineering student, the language is very important (although I am not studying linguistic or any courses that are language-intensive) as the reports are very technical in nature. A very critical language check is important to make sure the reader would not misunderstand our points. There are numerous ways of improving our language proficiency.

1. First, we can do a lot of reading that are RELEVANT to our field. It is pointless to read a Tom Clancy's novels if your main business is to publish technical papers on Electrical Engineering. Take note on how the points are presented, how the sentences are constructed and the jargon used.
2. Secondly, improve our word power. One interesting way is by watching movies of that language with assistance of subtitles in THAT language. For example, if you watch an English movie, make sure that the subtitles are in English too. Sometime, spoken words in the dialogs are hard to be recognized, with the assistance of subtitles, we can easily find the meaning in dictionaries (my favorite and fast dictionary is Google with search string: define:"your words").
3. When writing your report, please make sure all the grammatical and spelling errors are checked before printing. Make full use of your word editor software's grammar and spell checks features like those found in Microsoft Word (just press F7 and make the necessary corrections, there are reasons why red and green jagged underline below your words).
4. Prior submitting your writing to the intended reader, please have someone who are known to have good command of language to proof-read your writing first. We cannot rely on the spell/grammar checks feature found in the word editor only.
5. These are some guides to improve our language that I practice myself. I am not that good in language but I am always trying to improve my proficiency in language especially in English and Bahasa Melayu. I believe that no matter how good we are in our work, if we fails to translate it into words (verbally or written), then it will be no use to others.

p/s: Struggling with my FYP II progress report I. "Your report are not up to my expectations" - Z, my SV. Just tough it up and accept with open mind. :)

Java

The weather currently is very good. Not too hot nor it is raining. It is nice to hang the laundry to dry out there and yet my laundry basket is still full and untouched. What a boring and unproductive weekend. I feel so lazy to do anything right now and this new post is written with a bit of force just to tell myself that this weekend is somewhat productive. Hahaha...

I woke up at around 8 this morning (yeah, I am somewhat... a morning person... hahaha~) and headed straight to my PC, logged into Facebook and play Airline Manager - my current Facebook game addiction. After all the flights have been started, I played FarmVille, doing some harvesting, plowing and seeding job. I bet you can tell me how boring my weekend is. I feel like going out, but my pocket constraints me, making me feel even more boring stuck up in my room.




Browsing through my Facebook profile, somebody posted a wall post on my profile page. He (actually my teacher in SDAR), said something in Javanese language to me. I am not a native Javanese speaker myself but I understand what he said by translating it contextually and based on my understanding. The reason? I was (and still I am) nicknamed Jawa at school. This is where all it start. I remembered that my senior nicknamed Kobau (means "Buffalo" in English) give that name just because I live in Banting. Starting from that day, my friends especially the SDARians call me with that name. When I studied there, I made a few friends outside the school. I introduced myself with my real name first. Then, came my schoolmates calling and yelling me with my nickname, and automatically that name stuck at the tongue of my new friends when they are referring me.

Apart from that, some of my friends called my Asad as contraction to name Afiq SADli. I share the same name with my friend who is also in the same class with me from Form 1 until Form 5. So, we are differentiated by stating our dad's name along with our name. But, this nickname is only limited to my friend of that particular school only. Therefore, I can tell from which school are they when they are calling me with that name. Hehehe... However, the name Jawa is still prevail among my friends even when I entered UTP. As usual, I introduced myself to my new UTP friends that time with my real name, and preferred to be called Afiq but it did not last long. Remember the friends that are from other school I made earlier? Yes, some of them also enrolled in UTP and that is how the name spread. Hahaha~

Well, I guess that could not be helped. It is not a problem with me if my friends called me with my nickname as the nickname itself does not bring any bad meaning. But yet I am not proud of it because that nickname can bring misconception to other people who do not know me that well. and I feel guilty for that, somehow... Yes, like the recent wall post I mentioned above, people will think me I am a pure Javanese and can speak Javanese language very well. Yes, I do have Javanese blood from my dad, I can count from 1 to 10 (only, not more than that) and understand some words in Javanese but my nickname often be the cause of misunderstanding among my friends. Honestly, I can't speak Javanese fluently as my mom is from Negeri Sembilan. So, in our family, we only converse in standard Bahasa Melayu for daily communication. But, I think I am more comfortable with Negeri Sembilan dialect compared to Javanese. Anyway, I preferred to be called with my real name but I have no problem when my friends called me with my nickname. :)


p/s: Paris van Java

Act of imbecile

Care to tell me the moron who owns this car? It has been 3 days this car had caused traffic problem around V5E / V5F parking lots. And it seems the car is immune from security department summonses. Can it be the security department had ran out of summon book or they just have no bal*s?

Consistency

The word consistency is derived from the root word "consistent". From WordNet online dictionary website, the word CONSISTENT can be define in several context:

Consistent:

(adj)((sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable) "testimony consistent with the known facts"; "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"- FDR

(adj) uniform (the same throughout in structure or composition) "bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product"

There are several examples or instances where this word can be negatively expressed although the word itself is not there:

1. The ID card checks at the academic building area are done during the early week of lectures only.
2. Car boot checks are done whenever they like it, causing delays and long queue when exiting the perimeter.
3. Smoking openly (eg. at the cafes) is prohibited in the perimeter but it seems applied to the locals only.

So much with the consistency! :)

0.04

0.04, a numerical value that can be interpreted in various ways depending on the situation. It can be something that is negligible or very crucial. A current drop of 0.04 Ampere in a semiconductor might affect its performance and efficiency, but 0.04 Volt of voltage drop in electrical transmission lines over a large power grid network can be considered negligible.

Hence, the numerical figure, although it is less than 1, the value can be very definitive or can be neglected. For me, 0.04 brings mixed feeling for me. At one side, I feel relieved as if I have cheated death, but on the other side, it makes me feel really bad and pissed me off. The figure makes my hand tied, unable to do anything. Because of this numerical figure, I had saved myself from trouble by a pretty safe margin but at the same time this numerical figure had prevented me from achieving my target by a very thin hair. It is so frustrating for me to accept this fact. Because of this, those people will blame me, sarcastically putting pressure on me for not achieving the target. The number says it all, I failed in achieving my target. Like Don Toretto said in Too Fast Too Furious, " A win is a win. It does not matter whether you win by a fraction of a second or not". They will say that I failed because I am not putting good effort for it, although it was them who were not being supportive to me by keep putting pressure on me rather than motivates me. On the other hand, I am very thankful to Allah for what had I achieved, despite the environment is not really on my side. Alhamdulillah.


p/s: I believe there are only two people who said something nice over this small numerical figure of my achievement. I am sure they are not only providing me consolation, instead it had motivated me to do better. Thank you and I really appreciate that! :')

Back to School!

It's been a while I have not blogging here. At home, I am totally 'disconnected' from the information superhighway as my home is not connected to the Internet. Alhamdulillah, I have been in UTP for two days now (got back here on Monday, January 11). The parking lot at Village 5 is slowly swamped with cars but a lot of vacant parking spaces can still be seen. The UTP security had extended the yellow line by the roadside especially near Village 3. Thank you for that (pun intended).

My journey here in the last two days was not so smooth but thankfully no problems were encountered during the journey. The temperature and fuel gauges on the Waja had gone erratic and successfully freaked me out and made me drive VERY sensibly (had to stick to speed limit in the open highway most of the time, hope that could save me some speeding ticket!). The temperature gauge suddenly give maximum reading while the fuel gauge needle pointed to empty level. But once I slowed down, the gauges are functional again giving the normal reading. Damn!

The problem does not end there. When I was in the residential college (RC) office for hostel registration, the RC supervisor wanted to charge me for staying during the semester break and wanted to fine me for not returning the keys. Upon closer investigation, he admitted his silly mistake for not realizing there is other person who had the same name with me (including the exact spelling) who is currently staying in the room I stayed last semester. But this argument had cost me my precious time plus with the hot weather that day. It really pissed me off.

My life in UTP now is quite boring as I had to get back here early for FYP. My roommate is not coming back until next week so staying alone is so boring. My day is filled by going to the lab for testing circuit and that is all. On the other hand, I enjoyed the tranquility so I guess I just have to enjoy it while it last. Huhuhu~

Aidil Adha 2009

Walaupun pada mulanya aku tak bercadang untuk pulang ke rumah di Banting, Selangor, pada hari Khamis lalu (26 November 2009) aku tiba dengan menaiki motosikal tepat pukul 5.00 petang. Perjalanan mengambil masa selama 4 jam (antara perjalanan yang paling lama pernah aku lakukan dengan menaiki motosikal) kerana faktor jalan sesak dan aku mengambil masa yang lama ketika berhenti mengisi minyak dan makan. Akhirnya aku berjaya juga menyambut Aidil Adha di Banting yang indah dan permai itu. Huhuhu~

Aktiviti wajib ketika Aidil Adha sudah semestinya menyertai aktiviti korban di masjid berhampiran dengan rumah aku. Aku menyertai aktiviti melapah lembu korban setelah di sembelih. Bergelumang dengan darah, lemak, tahi merupakan perkara biasa ketika aktiviti melapah ini dilakukan. Aktiviti ini sangat menarik kerana walaupun nampak mudah, tetapi melapah memerlukan kemahiran dan common sense tentang anatomi binatang yang disembelih (dalam kes aku, lembu). Silap potong, mungkin anda boleh tersalah memotong ureter lembu ataupun tercucuk perut lembu menyebabkan segala isi perutnya terkeluar. Jika pisau yang digunakan tidak cukup tajam atau binatang itu tidak dilapah sejurus selepas disembelih, proses melapah akan menjadi sukar. Keadaan cuaca juga memainkan peranan yang penting kerana lembu paling mudah dilapah ketika suhu badannya masih panas (sejurus selepas disembelih). Ini bermakna, jika hari hujan, suhu badan lembu akan cepat jatuh dan menyebabkan proses melapah sukar dilakukan.

Pakcik yang berbaju putih dan berkopiah putih itu adalah seorang doktor. Tetapi bukan doktor haiwan la~ Sebab tu dia mengambil masa yang agak lama untuk mengeluarkan perut lembu yang ada 4 kesemuanya itu.

Alhamdulillah, Aidil Adha aku sambut dengan seadanya di rumah. Ini lebih baik daripada duduk terperuk di gurun Tronoh yang bosan dan tidak ada apa-apa ini. Aku sudah selamat sampai di UTP semalam (Sabtu) kerana aku akan mempunyai pembentangan untuk projek tahun akhir (fasa pertama) esok hari. Aku mengharapkan hanya yang terbaik untuk hari esok. Amin~

p/s: Aku mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha Maaf Zahir Batin~

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Bangang atau mementingkan diri sendiri?

Maaf, kualiti gambar tidak memuaskan. Diambil menggunakan kamera telefon bimbit.

Lihat sahaja gelagat pemandu trak pikap ini. Gambar ini diambil di Jalan Pasir Puteh, Ipoh semasa aku dalam perjalanan pulang ke UTP dari Ipoh untuk membeli komponen (IC 74LS163 tiada di EE Central Store, Blok 22) untuk projek tahun akhir aku. Pemandu trak itu cuba untuk memotong sebuah jengkaut (atau dalam bahasa orang kampungnya backhoe) di hadapan kereta bapak aku tetapi tidak sempat kerana lampu isyarat bertukar merah. Jadi, terpaksalah si pemandu wanita itu berhenti di laluan bertentangan sambil menunggu lampu isyarat bertukar hijau (sama ada dia bangang ataupun takutkan undang-undang dengan berhenti sebegitu). Walaubagaimanapun, tindakan pemandu tersebut sangatlah menyerlahkan kebodohan dan kesombongannya. Hahaha~


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Experimental Verification of a New Resonant Gate Driver in High Frequency Converter Circuit Based on T.I Formulation

Noticed that my FYP title has been changed. (Note: T.I=Texas Instruments)

The first stage of hardware-based work is finally completed. The digital PWM generator has been successfully completed built on breadboard. The circuit is operated thanks to these integrated cicruits (ICs) namely (as labeled on the picture):

1. 74HC14 Hex inverting Schmitt Trigger by Texas Instruments™
2. 74LS163 Synchronous 4-bit Binary Counter by Fairchild Semiconductor™
3. MAX944 High Speed, Low Power, 3V/5V, Rail-to-Rail Single Supply Comparators by Maxim Integrated Products

74HC14 provides 1 MHz clock for 74LS163 counter operation while MAX944 integrates 4 comparators in one package. This circuit uses 3 comparators to generate PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal. One notable feature of MAX944 is it uses only single supply for its operation compared to normal comparator which uses dual-supply (+ve and -ve supply) thus simplifying the circuit construction. The DC reference level will be fed via the green wire (marked with no. 4) and white wire (marked no. 5) is the PWM output.

The circuit will be brought to lab tomorrow for testing. Hope it will yield the expected result with minimum variation. :)


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Goodbye...

I wanna wish...

Goodbye to sleepless nights
Goodbye to back pains
Goodbye to ink-stained fingers
Goodbye to shoulder pains
Goodbye to exam

Yet I'm still stranded here in UTP for FYP presentation! Sheeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttt!!! [I'm referring to FYP presentation's evaluation sheet... :P]

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