Finally after 6 months..

August ending soon. It's been half a year since I last post anything on this blog. Been quite busy lately with everything. Work, work and work. Had some breaks in between. Went up genting for a weekend with Agnes to celebrate my birthday. Enjoyable and relaxing weekend.

Me & Agnes in Genting (May 2010)

Happy birthday to myself :)

Then, had some competitions going on continuously during june till july. It started of with perodua ecochallenge , followed by shell ecomarathon then by formula kart. Perodua ecochallenge was pretty much redoing what we did last year with a little improvements. Being team lead was much easier as there're juniors to work on the details while I oversee their work. But still nearing the competition there were still lots of last min work which I had to take care off myself. We stayed days and nights in school. Testing around campus was done till dawn. Several nights before the competition was almost sleepless. Finally winning the competition was definitely rewarding.

Then came Shell Ecomarathon. Was a great experience as it was totally creating a brand new vehicle and lots of trial and error to be done. Similarly, nearing the competition, it was also sleepless nights. Solving each and every problem that rose up. Even during competition days, last minute work and fixing and solving. Still we manage to meet teams from other universities and even countries. Meet some friends, sharing knowledge, ideas, and exchanging opinion. Truly a great experience. Some even had great techniques and technologies that was a huge leap away and worth learning. However, we, like most teams were having trouble getting up the hilly Sepang circuit. We did all we could to get up as much as possible over the hill but still. We were very close but still not good enough. More preparation will be needed for next year.

Team USM Gen2

With Pakistan Teams

Formula kart was a totally different competition compared to the two previous. Both perodua ecochallenge and shell ecomarathon were focus on fuel economy and efficiency. In shell ecomarathon, the best teams could get up to about 2000km/L. Surprising ain't it? Almost unbelievable but it's true. However not practical as a vehicle on the road. Formula kart is all about endurance. How capable is your vehicle to endure the 30lap race and also speed, being the first to complete the race. We got it running and was working all night long to push the car to go as fast and possible. However things just broke down during the last minutes, we work our way through to fix everything up. We got it running on the race day, but luck just wasn't with us. We were flagged at the starting line, but our car just gave way on the 2nd lap. We left with disappointment.

That was the competitions that kept me busy all these while, besides my own project. Then came Amy's wedding, twin sis of Agnes. Wish them happiness forever.

Then I went down to Sg for CY's convocation. Just a weekend trip, down south. Congrats to him.

Recently I just came back from a 5 days holiday in Krabi. To be continued on the next post... :)

Yawns.. time for bed.. Nights..

Genting Trip ( way backdated )

Finally, a blog which I've been wanting to post for like ages. Just couldn't find the time to post everything. Probably next time i should break up into several parts. Maybe I'm just too lazy. Back in campus I am. Busyness is already bugging me. Had been working till night for the past few days as some work need to be rushed on. So no choice but to work like a slave. Cheap labours like he always said. Lol. 

Genting trip was a trip we planned sort of adhoc trip just before the exams. I'm like having my first paper few days away. Quite a last minute trip and all the online rooms are fully book so we had to sort out other alternatives. We finally get an agent to book the accomodations and transportations too. 

I wasn't really looking forward to the trip due to some reasons but during the trip I think I wasn't that bad after all. Had lots of fun and it's great. 

Day 1

We reached early in the morning so we went sight seeing of the night kl city. Pretty nice view. We were waiting for sun rise and we waited and we realised that we were on the wrong side of the hill. Lol. 

Another shot

There's the beautiful morning sun. Magnificent. 

Me and the morning view

After phototaking of morning sun we went to Old Town for breakfast. The price there are rather same with the usual ones. So it wasn't too bad afterall. A nice cup of cold white coffee was just perfect. 

There's the boss. Busy person.

There's SeohLi trying to show us that she's taller than 153cm. Yaya we knew it.

That's the Dreamz Master, SeePhang and his Tiger. Dun stare into his eyes. (I think he's working part time there)

So after breakfast it''s still too early to check in so we went to the temple half way down the hill for site seeing. A very nice place indeed. Lots of nice sceneries for phototaking. 

Have some scandal going on. I'm curious too. Lol. ( should be easy to guess who is it )

A figurine at the entrance towards the temple which looks a little scary to me. Eww.

There's the big boss who really knows how to relax. Nice comfy seat.

Random

There's the nice pagoda. Isn't it just wonderful? 

Cheezzz everyone

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That's the big buddha. Look at the tiny weenie guy there and you can imagine how big it is.

Remembering Uncle Lim.

A nice dragon craving on the pillar.

Focus.. stay still... pose...

Fairies..erm.. not really nice pic though..

That's phang again. Look alike? Nah i dun think so.

Seohli peeking over..

Different angle shots

I kinda like this pic. It has the misty feel.. hmm..

Suddenly it turned so sunny.. weather is unpredictable..

It was about noon that we went back to check in into the hotel. Drop our stuff rested for a while and went for buffet dinner at the resort hotel cafe. Not too bad. Cost us less than 40 which i would say it's cheap. We sort of celebrated HLyn's birthday by treating him to good food. 

After dinner we went to the CASINO!! Just to have a look. Seeing others playing makes me felt like playing too. But I didn't. Actually I did, throw 10bucks into the stupid jackpot machine which is totally lame and pointless. I dun understand how those uncle and aunty can sit their right infront of that stupid machine. I lost that 10 ringgit just by clicking over and over again. 

The one place not to be missed in genting. *grins*

Went back to hotel to rest. 

Day 2

The whole day's plan was to play the whole theme park. Here we go. 

Phototaking just outside before going in. There's Ivan at the back photoshooting too.

Looking into the lens.

The most exciting, SpaceShot which makes you feel like falling from the sky. Should try at least once. Thrilling.

If you've tried the Spaceshot, Pirate Ship is nothing. Phang and me just relaxing away while the 2 gurls are screaming their lungs out. LoL =P

Chocolate Factory in the themepark. That's one big easter egg. Couldn't carry it back. 

I wished I have this clock in my room. But I might end up eating the whole thing. lol. 

Oops. caught stealing the choc from the clock.

Then there's Seohli again trying to do some daring stuff.

Believe it or not? 

Then we went for the bumper boat. We had a cameraman who was supposed to help us snap some photos. But due the long queue.......

he fell asleep...luckily he manage wake up when we were on the boat..

That's more like it..

Let's have some water fun. Gentlemen start your little boat!! Vrrmm....

That's a collision

Haunted mansion.. boo~~ I might be scared 10yrs ago.. hehe

The final one.. Superman! It's not that scary though. I thought it would. But nice ride though have to pay extra rm10. 

Back into First World in the evening for dinner and went for indoor activities after that. Went casino later that night. Manage to earn a little. Not bad for a newbie. LoL. Back to bed at 4am. Hehe. 

Day 3

Too lazy to take photos. Though there's some with Ivan. Pack our stuffs and got ready to check out. Tired but fun trip. 

I wonder if there'll still be chance for another one. Gotta get to work now.