Weekend of WEEK 12 is ended. Don’t know why, this semester pass till very fast, fast till a bit too fake already. All of my coursemates feel that too. WHY? Is it normal feeling for a final year student? I just remember this semester has just started not long ago. It is started by a May Intake, and I was attending the orientation.

It is followed by icebreaking, city tour, and festival. Yaa, FEStival! It is a so-called last event in our term of being SRC. FEStival= a campus carnival which was just prepared everything by us in 19 days… ya, 19 days, which is NINE-TEEN! Although it was not as happening, as success, as the FEStival in my mind, it was a great job for all of us!

Well, since it is a final year for us, we have to do a project in order for us to be awarded the degree. This project has a name which u will never guess, the name of this so-great project is… known as final year project. What a good name ya? So, in my so called fyp (final year project), I have chosen a title by a lecturer of a subject in my course… I still remember, I choose the title is based on the lecturer. Well, some lecturers I have no interest on them, since they are some not as nice as we know them. Some lecturers are nice, but I have no interest on their subject. Although the subject of the title I choose is not really my interest also (actually I don’t know I have interest which subject in this civil engineering also… seem all also very boring =.= except, maths, maybe…) I choose this subject, concrete technology, because of my future career, maybe. Since I will be working in IJM, which is a construction company, it is beneficial for me to know more on the building material, rather than the design thing, which is not the scope of a contractor. Besides, IJM has a concrete factory as well. So, taking this title, may give me another path after my graduation, rather than just working at construction site. So, I choose CONCRETE.

So, what title have i chosen? Microstructure Behavior of Light Weight Foam Concrete. It seem like very PRO rite? Actually the scope, as the name, is just study the microstructure of the concrete. But, u think to study the microstructure easy? >.<>

And thus, the nightmare begins…

OK, don’t talk about those sad things already. Let’s talk about this weekend. 21^st and 22^nd of August, the days of which I initially want to go for a camp, Famine 30. I have taken the form from friend and promised that I will be going to help on the camp. But, when I know the date, I returned the form to him. It is not because of assignment, not because of test, or anything, but it is because of someone, someone I have known for 15 years, Khoo Yi Yan. She warned, erm… not warn laa I think, is invite or welcome me to go for her convocation of degree which drop on 22^nd!!! So, what to do? One is a famine 30, which is a camp that I wanna go, another is the once-in-life convocation of my best friend of 15 years. No choice, I sacrifice the camp.

So, without going camp, that was what my activities for this Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, I woke up, not long after that, go to uni, to sieve sand for my project. Initially, I thought it would not be so tough, as I decided to use the machine. So, I brought my mp3, bought a Sinchew, planned to go lab, let the machine do eveythg, and I read newspaper and listen to mp3 alone. Who know, reaching there, I found that the machine plug is broken! WTF!!!> <>

Until 4pm, i stopped the sieving job, coz the sand is finished and thus I start to refill the sand from oven. After that refill the sand in oven from outside… When I move the sand from outside to the lab, there is a slope… and I was focusing on moving the sand and the slope was too steep, the trolley was lost of control and I fell into the longkang ><>

OK… what a pity day. I was quite pissed off of my life that time. 4.45pm, the lab was closing, and I have finished my refilling job. Thus, I went to DK there looking for any bus. I saw the bus uncle for genting klang, so it means that there will be bus at 5.15pm… OK, since I was passing by him, I just saja asked him…

”uncle, sat lagi pukul lima ada bus kan?”

“tak tau, tengok dulu lar… kalau ada orang, jalan la. Takda, tak jalan lor… kalau satu orang saja tak akan jalan la…”

“apa?! Satu orang tak jalan?!”

“tak boleh la… nanti bos marah lor..u panggil laa kawan kwan u mai”

“saya mai buat lab saja, saya seorang saja. Ok, kamu mau berapa orang baru jalan?”

“kurang kurang pun empat lima lar..bos saya marah saya lorr dulu sebab bawa seorang saja, dia kata petrol mahal”

“bos kamu sapa?”

“itu Kampar punya” (smiling there, but eye not looking at me)

“Kampar kampar lar, sini Klang Valley maa. Bukan Kampar yang control.. Bos kamu PJ sana ar? Saya mau complain sudah lor.. mana ada kata seorang tak bawa punya. Kalau tak jalan, saya Monday pergi dsa complain u punya bos. Itu tugas kamu semua maa, mana ada kata petrol punya” (i reli wanna beh tahan ady)

“tengok dulu lar… nanti baru mari la”

“ok, nanti pukul lima saya mari ar… kalau tak jalan, ari isnin saya mesti pi complain punya”

Finally... 5.10pm, it was really me alone only… and the bus departed… guess that he worried on being complained already… it should be himself lazy, didn’t want to fetch me, but all push to his boss..

OK, Sunday… yan convo… aiz… time really pass very very fast. I still can remember the day, we came to UTAR at PJ together… She came 1st with her family, and I went with my family… I at IKEA there that time and she phoned me, asking where I rent my room… and not long later, she said to me tat she rent room at the same row with me also…

We 4 ppl came to UTAR that time. Me, miao, yan and lijong… 4 of us came for taking the course of actuarial science. But, end up, just yan alone succeed to fulfill this dream… Me and miao had changed course before entering our degree… I change to civil engineering, and miao changes to EEE, and then change to KDU Penang somemore. Lijong and yan enter AS, but end of 2^nd sem, jong change to KDU accounting pulak… The days at PJ is still vivid in my mind… I still remember the 1^st mid term test in my UTAR life is computer studies. Then the 1^st mid term that I worry in UTAR is Physics1… all of us scare of the subject. Tat day, I still told yan tat nvrmind la… in our life, sure hv to fail once de maa… have to experience the feeling of failing in test. LOL. But luckily lar, we passed ^^

So, fast… yan graduate already. Miao also finish his studies already. While lijong is going to graduate also end of this year, I think. Just leave me alone… who is still studying at UTAR.. aiz… But studying life is enjoying, compared to working life, I know… if without exam, test, report, assignment, then the studying life is the greatest one!!

One more semester, my degree life is going to end. I know, I will surely miss my uni life after that. Sob~

Weekend of WEEK 12

Weekend of WEEK 12 is ended. Don’t know why, this semester pass till very fast, fast till a bit too fake already. All of my coursemates feel that too. WHY? Is it normal feeling for a final year student? I just remember this semester has just started not long ago. It is started by a May Intake, and I was attending the orientation.

It is followed by icebreaking, city tour, and festival. Yaa, FEStival! It is a so-called last event in our term of being SRC. FEStival= a campus carnival which was just prepared everything by us in 19 days… ya, 19 days, which is NINE-TEEN! Although it was not as happening, as success, as the FEStival in my mind, it was a great job for all of us!

Well, since it is a final year for us, we have to do a project in order for us to be awarded the degree. This project has a name which u will never guess, the name of this so-great project is… known as final year project. What a good name ya? So, in my so called fyp (final year project), I have chosen a title by a lecturer of a subject in my course… I still remember, I choose the title is based on the lecturer. Well, some lecturers I have no interest on them, since they are some not as nice as we know them. Some lecturers are nice, but I have no interest on their subject. Although the subject of the title I choose is not really my interest also (actually I don’t know I have interest which subject in this civil engineering also… seem all also very boring =.= except, maths, maybe…) I choose this subject, concrete technology, because of my future career, maybe. Since I will be working in IJM, which is a construction company, it is beneficial for me to know more on the building material, rather than the design thing, which is not the scope of a contractor. Besides, IJM has a concrete factory as well. So, taking this title, may give me another path after my graduation, rather than just working at construction site. So, I choose CONCRETE.

So, what title have i chosen? Microstructure Behavior of Light Weight Foam Concrete. It seem like very PRO rite? Actually the scope, as the name, is just study the microstructure of the concrete. But, u think to study the microstructure easy? >.<>

And thus, the nightmare begins…

OK, don’t talk about those sad things already. Let’s talk about this weekend. 21^st and 22^nd of August, the days of which I initially want to go for a camp, Famine 30. I have taken the form from friend and promised that I will be going to help on the camp. But, when I know the date, I returned the form to him. It is not because of assignment, not because of test, or anything, but it is because of someone, someone I have known for 15 years, Khoo Yi Yan. She warned, erm… not warn laa I think, is invite or welcome me to go for her convocation of degree which drop on 22^nd!!! So, what to do? One is a famine 30, which is a camp that I wanna go, another is the once-in-life convocation of my best friend of 15 years. No choice, I sacrifice the camp.

So, without going camp, that was what my activities for this Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, I woke up, not long after that, go to uni, to sieve sand for my project. Initially, I thought it would not be so tough, as I decided to use the machine. So, I brought my mp3, bought a Sinchew, planned to go lab, let the machine do eveythg, and I read newspaper and listen to mp3 alone. Who know, reaching there, I found that the machine plug is broken! WTF!!!> <>

Until 4pm, i stopped the sieving job, coz the sand is finished and thus I start to refill the sand from oven. After that refill the sand in oven from outside… When I move the sand from outside to the lab, there is a slope… and I was focusing on moving the sand and the slope was too steep, the trolley was lost of control and I fell into the longkang ><>

OK… what a pity day. I was quite pissed off of my life that time. 4.45pm, the lab was closing, and I have finished my refilling job. Thus, I went to DK there looking for any bus. I saw the bus uncle for genting klang, so it means that there will be bus at 5.15pm… OK, since I was passing by him, I just saja asked him…

”uncle, sat lagi pukul lima ada bus kan?”

“tak tau, tengok dulu lar… kalau ada orang, jalan la. Takda, tak jalan lor… kalau satu orang saja tak akan jalan la…”

“apa?! Satu orang tak jalan?!”

“tak boleh la… nanti bos marah lor..u panggil laa kawan kwan u mai”

“saya mai buat lab saja, saya seorang saja. Ok, kamu mau berapa orang baru jalan?”

“kurang kurang pun empat lima lar..bos saya marah saya lorr dulu sebab bawa seorang saja, dia kata petrol mahal”

“bos kamu sapa?”

“itu Kampar punya” (smiling there, but eye not looking at me)

“Kampar kampar lar, sini Klang Valley maa. Bukan Kampar yang control.. Bos kamu PJ sana ar? Saya mau complain sudah lor.. mana ada kata seorang tak bawa punya. Kalau tak jalan, saya Monday pergi dsa complain u punya bos. Itu tugas kamu semua maa, mana ada kata petrol punya” (i reli wanna beh tahan ady)

“tengok dulu lar… nanti baru mari la”

“ok, nanti pukul lima saya mari ar… kalau tak jalan, ari isnin saya mesti pi complain punya”

Finally... 5.10pm, it was really me alone only… and the bus departed… guess that he worried on being complained already… it should be himself lazy, didn’t want to fetch me, but all push to his boss..

OK, Sunday… yan convo… aiz… time really pass very very fast. I still can remember the day, we came to UTAR at PJ together… She came 1st with her family, and I went with my family… I at IKEA there that time and she phoned me, asking where I rent my room… and not long later, she said to me tat she rent room at the same row with me also…

We 4 ppl came to UTAR that time. Me, miao, yan and lijong… 4 of us came for taking the course of actuarial science. But, end up, just yan alone succeed to fulfill this dream… Me and miao had changed course before entering our degree… I change to civil engineering, and miao changes to EEE, and then change to KDU Penang somemore. Lijong and yan enter AS, but end of 2^nd sem, jong change to KDU accounting pulak… The days at PJ is still vivid in my mind… I still remember the 1^st mid term test in my UTAR life is computer studies. Then the 1^st mid term that I worry in UTAR is Physics1… all of us scare of the subject. Tat day, I still told yan tat nvrmind la… in our life, sure hv to fail once de maa… have to experience the feeling of failing in test. LOL. But luckily lar, we passed ^^

So, fast… yan graduate already. Miao also finish his studies already. While lijong is going to graduate also end of this year, I think. Just leave me alone… who is still studying at UTAR.. aiz… But studying life is enjoying, compared to working life, I know… if without exam, test, report, assignment, then the studying life is the greatest one!!

One more semester, my degree life is going to end. I know, I will surely miss my uni life after that. Sob~

A very SUI day...

I never thought that I will have such a day in my university life...well, although I got a little bit exaggerate...

Today, 5/8/2010. I having class on 10am, but I and Sintat already decided to meet each other at 9 today as we would continue our FYP concrete casting. Yes, we are in final year already NOW... a year that is not sweet at all, and FYP is not a good thing at all.....

(Let's make some intro about my FYP, the only final year project, in my life... as to complete my degree in Civil Engineering... It is a project about studies on micro-structure behavior of light weight form concrete...means, basically the steps are... to cast some concrete, if not mistaken should be 140+, then wait for some days, longest is 180 days, leave it there, and crush it using an apparatus...Then, get the strength of it and take some sample of the concrete pieces to study its microstructure using some very expensive instrument... This FYP is tough coz microstructure is something quite detail about material and quite advance study...besides, it requires our hard works on not only studies, and also the real HARD WORK... means u will definitely get sweat and tired after the lab...cause we need to play with cement, sand, water and our hand, clothes will surely get dirty!!!)

OK... let's continue on my pitiful story today.. Although we decided to meet at 9am.. i was just woke up by a phone call on 9.30am. Thus, I rushed very quickly to uni by METRO bus... which i didn't pay for it at all, since the bus feler din ask it from me wad =P
So, end up i reached lab at 10am.

Upon reaching lab, the so-called good senior just finish casting his concrete cubes... OK, because we still have some mold for our concrete. Thus, we started our works by preparing the mold, using spanner, screw etc.. Finally, 8 molds were prepared. We planned to do 8 cubes today.

(Did u noticed that we start our work at 10, on the time which we should be in the class? LOL)

OK... then we also decided to use the orange mixing machine to mix our concrete. But... when we wanna use it... WTH!!! the internal of the mixer was so damn dirty... The so-called senior didn't really wash and clean it after using it just now!!! Really WTF~! So, we spent about half an hour on cleaning the mixer...

Everything done.. and we start our concrete mixing... Everythg seem smoothly... and we adding form into the concrete mixture.. (for info, form is added to concrete so to produce bubble inside the concrete as to make it lighter, thus it is called lightweight form concrete) Our target is 1300kg/m3... Well, we already tried mix it in smaller volume before. So, we approximately know how much form we needed. So, we added 2% inside.... and mix mix mix... OPPS! HOW COME IT FELT SO LIGHT ONE!!!! OMG!!! and we measured, ~1000+ kg/m3 =.=
So, what to do? we sadly... move the mixer to the grass area there... and throw all the concrete mix, our baby, to the grass area there... 8kg cement, 8kg sand which we collected quite a long time... were wasted... We ady started to feel disappointed... And the sky was so damn suit our feeling. IT RAINED... ya... it rained when we were cleaned the mixer, for the 2nd time, after we throw out our concrete. Cleaning the instrument and machine under rain, cool rite? ><

OK, 1st case gone....

Ya... when i was preparing the material... particularly water... when I squatted, my jeans felt like in tension, and suddenly "pliakkkk", my jeans broke...somewhere at my leg there.... so damn sui, dunno why....

OK, we were still not giving up.... But, we decided to cast the cubes in 2 times. 4 cubes + 4 cubes...After preparing all the material needed, we put the heavy mixer container to the machine there, and on it. Guess what, BLARRR BLARR BLARRR!!! DON'T KNOW which stupid feler went touched and adjust that mixer speed to highspeed!!!! and it caused the concrete mix all splashed out of the container. Sintat who on the mixer switch was the victim, his pants and shirt were splashed by the concrete also. It was a really OMG... the floor... also full of concrete. And thus, what to do? This meant that we failed again, and we have to throw and waste our 4kg sand + 4 kg cement AGAIN~! Sadly, we throw the cement n sand away, and continued the next trial....

Preparing evything. And we made sure the machine speed was in the correct position. We on the motor. Adding the foam and everything seem nice. But, how come the concrete felt so nothing! It seem like weightless AGAIN... OK, weighing it first, Sintat somemore wanted to cheat ourselves by putting more volume of concrete as more than 1Litre. But still, the concrete density was just around 1000+ only... Meant, we need to throw all these away again...

THUS, WE WORKED FOR THE WHOLE DAY... AND WHAT WE GET? WE GET TO WASTE A TOTAL OF 16KG CEMENT and 16KG SAND!!!!!! AND WE GAVE UP...

Few hours later, i called the Kaspersky guy, who promised me a job during pc fair, asking him about the dress code for working. Guess what he told me? He said he never promised me, and said he just told me that he will check the availability of the job without promising me anything, sweat. I called him few times before, 1st time, he asked me confirm or not that i can work, i said ok, then he said no problem also. 2nd time, i asked him is it confirm tat i will work already, he said YA, and said me alone only should be no problem, then said will contact me again since he was busy that time. OK, and now he just said a sorry to me. WTF~!

OK... forget it... i was truly tired the whole day. And, after dinner, i was sleeping from 8pm till the next day, which was just now, 8am.... ya, i slept for 12hrs... =.="

Since I don't work for pc fair already. I think I will continue do my FYP lab today. And hope that everything can really run smoothly and NO MORE WASTAGE ON MY DEAREST CEMENT AND SAND ANYMORE PLEASE~!! T.T