War-time

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.

Survey

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.

Break

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*

Eletronics

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!@!

No more P

Woohoo, im officially a Competent Driver. No more marks deductions, no more P sticker and no more P license. Just got my license two days ago. When i compared both my license, i realised my looks did changed these two years, i used to be so nerdy last time with my braces. =s Yikes.... But its over. :p

Doggy

OMG, my dog is a pervert. Ok, thats what my friend said. Well, my design group came to my place on Sat to do our project, which is DUE in another 2 weeks and we are just starting! We are becoming desperate, people have been starting ages ago and we are just starting, so we decided on a whole day on Design with nothing else. PC was the earliest to reach. She loves dog and actually wants to keep one herself but her mom just hates or rather i would say SCARED of every single animal that exists. Once she saw the dog, she started playing with it. My dog was so 'manja' that he actually lied down on the floor, on its back. Then when we wanted to leave, he started to walk on two legs then he hug her legs, on two feets, like not wanting to let her go. He was really cute. Suddenly, PC just got scared and said ok... ur dog is a pervert. THen it followed it with, " i got sexually assaulted by a dog", i didnt really notice anything but she said she could feel it. LOL. Unbelievable... Assaulted by a dog, thats weird =s

Hectic

Everyone is right, year 1 is like a honey moon year, everything is easy and simple. And if u ever think year 1 was hard, u will die in year 2. Im not denying it, i'm feeling the load and stress. Everyday there is sure something to do, quiz, assignment, labs, prelims etc. The whole week is just working working working. Its only week4, but we have been working like everyday since this sem commenced, non stop. Hopefully my energy would last me another 8 weeks, not forgetting another 3 weeks for exams!

This week labs wasnt that bad, at least we know what was happening, and they decided to reduce the amount of work, although still4 parts, not forgetting we went to lab early an hour to get things set up. Playing with the op-amp was fun, except the part where someone actually blew up the op-amp and there was a loud 'crack'.

Something happen this week. One person turned from someone really nice and goofy, to someone who dont bother. Not to say dont bother, but thats what is happening. He refuses to answer any questions, so what is the class for then? He insists on us participating, which is really good and fine with me, but there is a limit. Its just not right having people running around with wrong makeup theories and principals. Think experience is something we have to garner whenever we do anything.

I decided not everyone can teach. He/she can be smart, but that doesnt mean she can teach. Teaching needs patient, tolerance and not forgetting the passion. Recently, i met someone who is really really REALLY smart but have a really really HUGE ego. You can even feel her vibes like a distance away, which actually gives you the chills. And near enough, you start to panic, and even forget everything you wanted to do... Thats how scary!

*Struggling with pilling work*

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