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..

Last Christmas (Part1)

Once again I'm back logging again. I just wanna get over this and start blogging for the brand new year. So last christmas was my first christmas in Singapore with Agnes. We had quite a number of ppl there in Singapore so it was sort of like a little Christmas gathering there. (Kiat, Teodore, CC, Eeling, Shaun, Cyrus, Jacelyn+1 ). Thx to kiat we had accomodation and teodore too. We were crashing at both their places. We were there the day b4 Christmas eve. Met up with Teodore on our arrival in Sg and our bus stopped us around Bugis area so we went for steamboat over there. I wasn't the best but was just okay to me. Filling up our empty tummy while chit chatting and experiencing the city life ppl in Sg, rather interesting. Things that you will nvr get in places like PB for there next at least 10yrs. LoL. Bugis seems like a place for steamboat. We could see a stretch of shops all serving steamboat and we just went to a random one. We finished up at almost 11pm and we know it's time to head back before it's too late. Still, we were this close. We head towards NTU, got off the MRT, and watch the last bus went by. Ended up walking back to NTU which wasn't that far though and helped out with the digestion of food. 

Our first stop in Bugis.

One of the road in Bugis with lots of food.

Crashed in Teodore's place for the first night. 

Woke up a little late, had breakfast in the canteen and went over to the School of Arts, Design and Multimedia or just ADM in short. A popular place in NTU to hang out and a must to visit, with it's unique building design. 

In the ADM building with the creative 3d illustration. It was almost perfect. 

It was drizzling in the morning though, luckily we had umbrella. So we were suppose to gather for dinner on the Christmas Eve and have a little countdown to Christmas. So from NTU, we headed to city center. We went to catch AVATAR 3D in Iluma, a new and fairly interesting shopping complex. Btw Avatar 3D was cool. I've watched the 2D version and the 3D version just made it so real. Though a little expensive but i think worth the dollar. After the movie we met up with Kiat down the road in a cafe enjoying his tea time. He sure knows how to pleasure himself. And we walked around Bugis and head to orchard to meet up with the rest for dinner.

Myself, Teodore, Kiat.

There's just so much to shop, and still it's crowded with ppl everywhere. All the restaurants were pretty crowded since it's Christmas eve. We ended up choosing a Japanese restaurant, we had to wait for like 30mins or more. We ordered a set for 6 which is inclusive of a variety of food. Shaun the special one had his own a la carte so is Cyrus who was making his way after work. Gathering was fun, food was rather okay, but a little high on the price though, catching up was great, hanging out together was just awesome. Nothing beats old time. 
Here comes the food..

The scallop

Pizza = jap food?

Sushi

Salad

Cheese baked rice

Grilled Squids

Sashimi

A little like the 'lou sang', prob japanese version

Cold noodles

Mixed Tempura

Garlic Rice

We still had a brownie and a strawberry parfait for desert. Quite a variety of food. 

Shaun's Special A la Carte

A toast to all, first taste of sakae

With the little sakae bottle

That's everybody

After our Christmas Eve dinner gathering we out to the street, Orchard Road. People mountain, people sea, the whole pathway is crowded with lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of ppl all the way. The decoration wasn't as great as I would expect, but seems that it used to be nicer and more fun. Anyway we walked along the pathway from Ion Orchard to Summerset. The exterior lighting of the Ion Orchard was great. Takashima had a christmas tree made up of ferrero rocher ( must be fake one, or else all the leaves and branches will be gone, LoL ). Squeezing our way through the human traffic, finally we cut off at sommerset. From there we went to Clarke Quay, one of the happening places at night. It used to be warehouse i think, now the whole area is filled with bars and clubs, a popular night hang out places. The whole places is also packed, as everyone is awaiting to countdown to Christmas. We found ourself a place in one of the bar, got our drinks and chilled out while waiting for the clock to strike 12am. We were provided with party packs and enjoyed ourselves chatting, drinking till Christmas. Cheers! We had Jacelyn with bf and also Teodore's friend with us. Wonderful night. We then crashed over at Kiat's place that night. 

Exterior lighting of Ion Orchard

Orchard Road filled with people

Christmas tree made from ferrero rocher?

A group photo of everyone

Hanging at the MRT

Christmas lighting @ Clarke Quay

Kiat & Shaun in party hats

Me & Agnes with the riverside view

End of part 1.. to be continued..

10 days to Christmas!

3 more working weeks to go. And it's all 4 working days. Isn't it a great way to end the year. I'm back in campus this morning. Took a non usual bus back. Shamisha holiday i think, not too bad. No complaints. Since KKKL seems to be cutting off the night trips so i'll need to find for other bus services to get me back to PB. Anyway just a relaxing weekend back in mlk. Meet law, wah7, and loke. CY was back but was unavailable. but will be meeting him up soon in sg. Spend time at home and with agnes was great. A little bit shopping, wanted to watch some movies but was rather packed. 

Us in Kenny Rogers

It's Xmas next week, and the festive mood is in the air. Everywhere there's xmas deco, xmas songs, xmas sales, etc etc. I'm looking forward to Sg Xmas this year and also time to eat 'tong yun' which indicates CNY is coming too. 

Anyway, been facing the comp for whole day trying to crack some code. Now i feel my head is going to crack apart before I even get the codes cracked. Also a sore throat is also making my world upside down. Better get some med or 'pi pa kau'. Must get myself healed to fully enjoy the holidays.  Counting down... 

Santa enjoying a summer vacation in mlk

All i see now are just 1s and 0s. Try crack this. 01101001001000000110001101110010011000010110001101101011011001010110010000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110001101101111011001000110010100100001

Got it?