Yours Truly

Back in UK

2011-11-13T12:09:00.000-08:00

Been back in the UK for nearly 2 months now! Believe it or not, I just had my last lecture of my chemical engineering last friday! So, I practically have no more classes till exams next May/June.

But, I do have my Design project and reseach project going on at the same time which contribute a cumulative 80 credits! Whoops. Not so free after all!

Glad to be back in the UK. Good to see all my friends here and great to make new friends too! Enjoying my time here at the moment. Job applications on the way. Already applied to 2 companies and more to come hopefully. Not too sure will I be able to get them as they mostly want students who have the rights to work in the UK full-time and I'm not one of them. Anyhow, I will just try my luck. No harm trying!

A very chilling weekend really. Just lazing around in my room. Did some minor revision. Quite a productive weekend I feel. More design project stuff coming up next week and I guess it is back to research mode then! :(

Research project topics almost sorted out. Really interested in COMSOL modelling though haven't really got the topic yet! Hope I will be able to cope with the incoming tasks! Been doing shopping these few weeks and really feel great with what I bought. Should be taking-off to Belfast in December for winter holidays. Tickets yet to be booked and most probably will go there anyways!

Till then, got work to do..... So, ciao first! xx

Long holidays in Penang

2011-06-03T09:04:00.000-07:00

Year 3 of my degree ends and it is holidays again. How fast can time fly? Too fast if you ask me. Can't even believe me eyes that there's only 1 year left in my university life. Many of my secondary school classmates will also be graduating the time I graduate. Some others have already graduated and even working already! Wow that is swift fast and I can't comprehand either. Well, we can't turn back time and go back the the good old times can we? We can just make full use of the current situation and make it as great as possible.

It is always great to be back home. Nothing beats home. The food, the bed, the people, the toilet, the environment. Nothing in the world beats those. Departing from Singapore was not as easy as it seems. I was telling myself when my final exam ended in NUS that phew am going home already! Wooooooooo, leaving kiasu land hahahhaa (no offense la) :P. But when it came to saying goodbyes, it was pretty hard and I was very reluctant to do so (and I'm not very good at expressing myself). I have met many friends here from many countries. I might not be very close to most of them but knowing them have been a great pleasure, especially my housemates for 2 semesters. They have made my days while I was in Singapore. Talking gibberish and laughter together have been of great entertainment. I'll miss them to be honest and it was hard to say goodbye to them knowing that it will be a very long time before we do meet again. Nevertheless, it is great to be back home in Malaysia.

What have I been doing since 5th May? Well, nothing much! Most of the time been resting and slacking my ass off in my room; catching up with my beloved secondary school friends. I wanna get a part time job but transportation proved to be a problem as I do not have my own transportation. But I do hope to do something useful :P

Things to accomplish in the next few weeks.

-Get documents for my UK visa extension (the shittiest thing to do EVER)

-Try to get a job

-Get fat? (Prolly)

-Complete reading some books left pilling up in my room

-Meet up with more friends!

Screw it, let's just do it!

Untitled

2011-03-12T04:50:00.001-08:00

NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering FYP posters were displayed on Friday! What's up with them? Nothing much to be honest. Posters only larr. LMAO. Approximately 200+ posters were on displayed at the Engineering Auditorium and I was there to 'steal' some ideas for my own FYP next year. Well, it was a goner attempt as wherever I look they were all the same (at least to me though). Met up with some Singaporean friends who were also there with their posters. Didn't dig in for the free meal provided though which I should had lmao.

I was told by a friend that they had 2 types of projects. One was computational simulation while the other is laboratory experiments. Both have their pros and cons. Well, to be honest, I would want to choose the simulation type as I am quite interested in computer simulation but again I'm pretty weak in Matlab so it might not be the best choice :( She also told me that some even required Java which they had no basic background to it when they took the project and had to start learning from square one. Tough luck mate. Really need to consider many factors that would come into play next year. :(

Congratulations to one of my friend, as he won 2 prizes for his poster. Best poster voted by fellow colleagues and best poster by the panel of judges (lecturers etc). He's a real hardworking fella; all the best to him and the other 4th years who are graduating this end of semester. As for me, I still have 1 more midterm this Monday; Petrochemicals and Processing Technology; so much too read, my brain's reaching saturation point :( and I have not really looked into other subjects because I'm focusing on this midterm and also partly slacking lmao. Most of the midterms I had I think were average not too good neither too bad. So, have to step up during the finals.

I had one of the best chemistry subjects ever under him. Really enjoyed it. :P

Hmmmm yeah remembering one of my chemistry mod lecturer last semester. As he said:

"Education is not for the sake of examination only. Education is to open up the eyes. But we live in a world where one needs to have examination unfortunately."

I had one of the best chemistry subjects ever under him. Really enjoyed it. :P

Reality check 1 2 3

2011-02-24T02:12:00.000-08:00

Yes! Reality check! Hmmmm... Let's see recess week over in 3 days and 4 mid terms coming up. *Sighs*

Had one mid term before recess week and was an easy one but I think everyone else also found it to be extremely easy. :P

Took sometime off uni work and travelled to Langkawi with my roomate to chill for abit. Now am back in the tensed Singapore mugging for next week's mid terms starting from Wednesday till Friday. Pfft. Dang, can't sleep till late already :(

Well, there's nothing much in my mind which I can write down now. Just trying not to leave it too empty :P So, yeah will be back prolly after midterms? or perhaps after the 2nd semester ends? :P

Ciao ~

3 weeks of hell officially begins!

2010-11-07T01:25:00.000-07:00

Kick-starting this hellish 3 weeks would be a project presentation by your honourable Mr. Ma to the whole class (FML). The very last ever ever project/presentation for this semester. Because I studied 2 years in UK, so I was assumed to be the best candidate to give the speech for our group. Hahaha. Oh well, I'm the noble man loh to sacrifice myself =.=.

Actually I started revision already but 2 weeks of revision of 5 modules is kind of tight if I don't get it started. So, yeah nearly done with 2 modules already although past papers are yet to be attempted so far. :) I wouldn't say my life in Singapore is as bad as first thought although it's just fucking insane here how people do their work hahahaha. But again, I think if you could really work efficiently and management time properly I think it should be fine. But then again, probably engineering students face a more hectic situation as they do more modules and stuff in my opinion (not saying that the arts side is easy!). Every course has its own difficulty I believe! :)

So here I am sitting in the living room, after 2 sets or self-rehearsal for tomorrow's presentation publishing this post. I don't really like presentations but well I think it will be a very common thing in the near future when we work. My dutch housemates thinks reverse. They think presentation is the easiest job in a group project. It's because they say you don't have to do anything but just talk (but with sufficient understanding for the matter of course) or not you'll just be talking gibberish all the way trying to smoke your way through the presentation. Hahahaha. But I think it's the asian culture in general; I stress in general to dislike presentations. Although there are people I know which are extremely well-trained to give public speeches and presentations. I really admire them. I do strongly agree that presentation in an extremely important aspect of life which one has to get use to it.

Apart of that, I have been catching up with Bleach in terms of the animation. Hmmmm, not really impressed by the animation because as usual they have this freaking 5 minutes recap of previous episode and the bloody actual episode is less than 20 minutes. Real bull. And sometimes just shows some insignificant scenes hahahaha.

Well, wondering why I'm doing this when exams are just 2 weeks away? Hmmmm, I have no idea too! Probably because I have this presentation to accomplish. I think after tomorrow 11am, I will be on full time mugging mode as I will only have the exams to concentrate on and nothing else. So, do wish me luck for my presentation tomorrow, although I doubt anyway will see this post by today hahahaha. Goodluck to everyone who is having exams or are going to have exams and yeah looking forward to going back to Malaysia in December as well as Cambodia!!!

Peace-out :D

Exams are coming, so are the holidays

2010-10-16T19:44:00.000-07:00

Yea i think in about 6 weeks or 5 i will be having my 1st semester's finals. FML. and to top everthing off, we're only given 1 week of study break to revise 5 modules before exams start. Aiks. So, revision starts now I presume! :D However, I still have 2 projects to go and 1 more class test. Damn it man so so so lazy somemore... Kiu mia ar... :(

On the bright side, at least, I'll be having 5 weeks of long holidays to enjoy after that and to think of what appropriate modules to choose for sem 2. Hopefully not any modules which require intensive and mental mathematics which requires me to pull my hair off my head again :(

Now it's 15 minutes to 11 am and I'm goin to start doin some research which I have to discuss with my group mates on Wednesday as well as completing a tutorial due on Wednesday too and revise for a class test on Friday TOO ! XD

Totally awesomeness! :D FML :D

Life in Singapore so far

2010-10-04T21:07:00.001-07:00

Hectic piece of shit! :D hahahahahahhaha... A lot of mental workload for me to complete and they are starting to pile up. Let me see currently I have 4 group assignment/tutorial, 3 individual assignments. 3 assignments/tutorial due next week and haven't done them yet although started a bit on them already. They seem to be never ending wtf?! lol 5 more weeks till my first semester final examination damn it man so fast lol.

Actually to be honest, workload is fine just that more stressed-out on the fact that I need to learn more mathematics. Probably I might have forgotten or was not taught in Birmingham about these maths. Probably taking further maths in A lvls' students might have got it anyways but I didn't take further maths though. So, yeah have to learn solving unsteady state 2nd order partial differential equations with initial and boundary conditions by separation of variable (might have learnt it in 2nd year though I still can't recall any memory of it) :( Honestly, that's the biggest problem this semester. Next semester when I choose my modules I'll look meticulously at the pre-requisites required and make sure no tough mathematics knowledge is required lol.

The other modules are interesting and fine to me. Project Management all about building theory and stuff. Not really concerning chemical engineering but yeah good to learn something new from my point of view. Chemistry so far yeah nothing on chemical engineering either but soon it'll be going into something related to my course ie about surfaces and interfaces. But now it's mainly regarding pure chemistry such as solid state chemistry. Quite fun though. Then Genes and Society is all about biology. A lil bit more in depth compared to O lvl biology. Probably those who took biology at A lvls or stpm would have no problem at all in it. Process safety, health and environment is also okay just that there're alot of equations to use in final examination. Drug delivery is the one I'm talking about extreme maths. The math component consists about 50% of the final examination marks. Wooohoooo! But I think as long as I stay focus should be able to do it. How well though remians to be seen very soon! lol.

I'm already looking forward towards december for my 5 weeks break yeeha. hahahaha. I'll practically do nothing but chill at home. well if I have the chance might find a job lah but unlikely la; unreliable public transport + i have no car to travel to and fro. lolz. If can't then I'll just be playing computer games and read other non-academic related book ( self-improvement related books i hope). Anyway ciao gtg revise work :( Fucking hell :DDDDDDDD

Modules for Semester 1 done... Hopefully

2010-08-12T04:11:00.000-07:00

Finally, I've got 5 modules which I need to take. Overall, I am pretty happy with them modules. I have attended 3 lectures so far and they are pretty decent. There isn't much difference between lectures in NUS and Birmingham in my opinion. Probably in Birmingham the lecturers speak better english that's all I guess (no offense to anyone or party)! :D

Below are the modules which I will be taking for Semester 1; might seem Greek to a lot of people I presume.

1) Physical Chemistry of the Solid State & Interfaces (Department of Chemistry)
2) Genes and Society (Department of Biological Sciences)
3) Process Safety, Health & Environment (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
4) Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
5) Fundamentals of Project Management (Department of Building)

Another thing which I observed so far. Every class I attended so far, there are more girls than boys :) The ratio of boys to girls is about 1:2. ^__________^

Best Ever Meal in Singapore so far.

2010-08-07T08:46:00.000-07:00

Was at Queenstown. Somewhere near the IKEA store. Had one of the most satisfying meal in Singapore so far. Seafood man! Chilli crab, sambal fried kang kung, Sting ray and Sotong! Fuyoh damn shiok man. And to top it all of a glass of Tiger beer. LOL. Full and nice! HAHAHAHAHAHA...

Singapore

2010-08-05T03:21:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm in Singapore already and still relaxing and slacking since term has started just yet. Pretty much added most of the modules which I want to take for my first semester here. However, haven't decided which ones to drop yet though. Might be interested in taking some modules which are not in my main chemical engineering discipline; very interesting indeed. Found a few modules from the physics and astronomy department. They were about how physics impacted life as well as some of einstein's theory of relativity. Pretty interesting but not sure yet because I need to write essays! Bummer. No final examinations though! :D

Hopefully will get the payment of my hostel and other misc. fees done asap. Still pretty amazed by the spacious and large campus of NUS. It is definitely way bigger than University of Birmingham. To be honest I haven't even fully explored my faculty. probably only been to one tenth of it :D
Haven't met any Singaporeans or Malaysians doing Chemical Engineering but I'll defintely get to know them when school starts on the 10th of August right after National Day of Singapore.

Oh ya got a few lecture notes for one of my modules by the name of Physical Chemistry of the Solid States and Interfaces. Wow, first chapter about A-Level chemistry which I forgotten most of them; atomic orbitals, molecular orbitals, electronic bands etc. Holy crap! Really need to brush-up on these basic or not I might be in trouble :( In addition to that there's another module named Molecular Design of Drugs. There are no lectures at all! This is because, the 3rd year Chemistry students taking it are all in companies around Singapore doing their internships. So, it is and "independent study" module which might have some risk taking it since I have never done it before ie reading lecture notes without a lecturer guiding or teaching me. Anyway will get that sorted out soon.

Lonely Penang Island

2010-07-05T05:52:00.000-07:00

Penang oh Penang. Why do I feel so lonely and bored here even though there are abundance of cheap food around me. I don't usually have this kind of lonely feeling but I'm really having it right now. Why? Why? Why? I thought UK was bad but it is even worse here :( Friends from overseas haven't reached home yet and those who are here are leaving one by one back to their universities. And I have been quite relaxed since coming back home except the fact I needed to review the modules I chose for my NUS year. God bless! :S

When my friends are back in Penang, I'll be away in Singapore. So, the only way would be for me to return to Penang to meet them or for them to come to Singapore to visit me! How unfortunate this is. Unfair huh? Oh yes it is! Life goes on though and I'm ready for the life in Singapore! Even though many question my decision to go there (even I myself question it now, lol); I think I will be fine there as long as I have faith in myself. Oh yeah baby! I will miss UK (can't believe I'm saying it right now) but yeah I will and all my friends there but definitely we'll be able to meet up again.

As for Singapore, I hope to make new friends and hopefully my room mate's a great person and hopefully he/she doesn't like the air cond because I don't like air cond! LOL. I will be closer to home and definitely will be cheaper for me too! Meaning I can spend more! LOL.

Back in Malaysia

2010-06-26T10:05:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm back in Malaysia... So, what I'm I doin at the moment? Nothing much except catching up with football... Got my results for second year and it was okay... Just preparing my important documents for my Singapore Student Pass. Damn annoying thing to start with. Caught up with some friends and yeah had some great time out with them catching movies and some football matches. Anyone with any great ideas of what to do with my 2 months holidays? Travelling? Learning a new language? Learning a music instrument? Play PC games 24/7? I think the 4th choice would be most likely xD.

2 more papers to go!

2010-05-27T01:46:00.000-07:00

Yeah 2 more papers and I'm done with second year! Yeeehaaaa... All the papers have been well until yesterday when Reactors and Catalysis was a real killer. Many people complaint about it and even emailed the lecturer and tutors complaining the how difference was yesterday's question to past papers. Well, to be really honest, it was not that hard. It's just that no one paid attention to the tutorial questions. It was all from the tutorial. Sigh. I'd done it before but could only fully complete one of the questions. The other one was okay but the another one was totally crap. Probably due to exam pressure and time constraint, I was not able to derive the proper equation to obtain the correct answer. So, quite a huge some of marks were gone there I suppose. Actually I derived the correct formula and material balance out already but I don't know what was with me yesterday I didn't spot that I inserted the equation wrongly! Even though I might get marks for working, but there was not much working to begin with! :D

What to do, luckily was only a 10 credit module and not a 20 one which accounts 2 times more than the former. Anyway needa do well in the next 2 papers... Toughest and most important! Anggong popi popi :]

Revision term starting soon... Means exams nearer :(

2010-04-21T17:35:00.001-07:00

The dawn of a new semester is approaching and it ain't a good sign at all. It literally means the examination period is fast approaching and yeah stress days are coming too. Since the start of second year I've been constantly staying up late night either revising or doing nothing but staring blankly at the laptop screen. But these few weeks, I've been working till 2 or 3am and yeah it's not the best thing to do to be honest. Stayed up whole night till 6 am several times in the Learning Centre mugging. I need more Coke man I desperately need it LOL. I really need the energy boost hahaha.

Apart from revision, I still have another coursework to be handed-in when school reopens. A group thing wth. Sei lor this time, I can't bloody get any response from my group members. WTF! Asked them through uni email as well as FACEBOOK but no replies. Dulan ar... And this shit ain't some easy exercise. Been trying to solve one bloody question for 2 days and can't even be 100% sure it's right. Oh almighty Dr. Robbins, why do we need to do this coursework over Easter T_T. But I still respect your intelligence all the way from Cambridge University! You are still one of my favourite lecturers :D

Al-Duri's coursework nearly done (said this many many times) because I keep procrastinating one small question. Haha. Typical me I guess. But was a good exercise to revise her subjects. Hope the exam is similar to those in the coursework. Fingers-crossed xx

Revision

2010-04-15T01:44:00.000-07:00

Yah... alot of stuff to revise and yeah time is running out!

Just listing down the progress of each subject I've got to sit exams for this year.

Process Systems/Principles of Process Control - 85%

Liquid Mixing Systems - 90%

Membranes and Adsorption - 50%

Distillation - 100%

Sustainable Development - 50 %

Heat, Momentuma and Mass Transfer - 10%

Drying/Crystillisation - (probably not attempting)

Reactors and Catalysis - 0%

Still have past papers to do though. :[

Break and NUS Application

2010-03-31T03:21:00.000-07:00

Easter break is here and yeah holidays but that does not necessarily mean I can rest 24/7. I have loads and loads of work to catch up and do. Yeah! Started a bit of revision and hopefully to be able to complete a coursework by this weekend. Fingers-crossed! Then might take a break from revision before attempting the other one.

Application of my exchange to NUS is gathering pace knowing that the online application deadline in on the 15th of April while the submission of hardcopy supporting documents is on the 1st of May. That gives me a little bit more time to consult my tutor to discuss the modules that I need to attempt while being over in Singapore. On the top right are the modules I have chosen. Hopefully they make sense.

Random Happenings

2010-02-06T07:04:00.000-08:00

Arrived home in Birmingham on monday 1st February 1pm. Rushed to university to attend the first presentation session for the Project Design Exercise. My group wasn't presenting that week but we were there to witness how the other groups present. All the groups in my opinion did fairly well except for 1 or 2 excellent ones. Gosh, I don't know how am I going to handle the presentation when it reaches my turn which could possibly be in the next 2 or 3 weeks perhaps.

Okay, let's talk about Cambridge. First on reaching the train station; Ordinary UK city only lah! After further venturing north heading towards the colleges; Oh my god! Awesome! Yes! It is indeed an awesome city. In my opinion it is a quite boring city but nevertheless a beautiful city. There are about I guess 31 colleges in total? The architecture of the buildings especially the colleges is really the olden days' architecture, more to the medieval ages. Damn, I was seriously impressed. There is a very distinctive difference between Cambridge University compared to University of Birmingham.

Met ah Liang's singaporean friend, Premchand who lives in St. John's College (one of the famous colleges there). Took us to venture around his college and his accommodation. Well, they pay dirt cheap for their accommodation man. I can't believe it. He lives in a hostel/apartment/accommodation which rent includes internet (>50 MBps) and unlimited heating and electric and he pays less than what I'm paying to rent a private house. Shit! First night there, we went for this Asian Food Festival or something organised by CUMSA (Cambridge University Malaysian and Singaporean Association) though most of them are Singaporeans. The food wasn't that great although I liked a few dishes which I haven't had for ages since coming here to UK. 11 pounds for that dinner. LOL

Next day, went roaming around the city with Premchand going to church. Went for lunch at a Japanese restaurant with Singaporeans and a few Malaysians. After that, went back to apartment and talked cock and played some computer games. At night, we attended a formal dinner at St. John's college formal dining hall or something. They have the formal dinner 6 times a week excluding Saturdays if I'm not wrong. Awesome food and had wine too. The dinner was 8.50 pounds and I think it was a great experience to be there for once. Arrived home and went to bed straight haha. Then the next morning took off back to Birmingham. :D

Back in Birmingham accompanied Leet Liang until early morning on Tuesday before I headed for labs. Leet Liang then went back to Leicester probably before 11 or 12 in the afternoon. The rest of the days in the week was fully pre-occupied with Project works and studying sessions. Boringggggggg. Me and Tim decided to go for a Quiz Night organised by BUCES (Birmingham University Chemical Engineering Society) on the Thursday night. However, we were so unlucky as we missed the 1 pound dinner and the quiz itself too. We missed it because we were playing Bejeweled Blitz on facebook in the cluster. :( I reckoned that quiz to be an opportunity to meet new people but it wasn't meant to be though. Went to Goose (a pub) to have curry before heading back home to do my project work. Ahhhhhhhhh finally weekend arrived and yeah i literally enjoyed the whole Friday night without doing work but definitely need to do them on Saturday and Sunday as I need to prepare some stuff for my group member to work on. Stress again sia :(

Another new week domintated by work and stress awaits... XD

Free for the week!

2010-01-22T02:56:00.000-08:00

Hah, handed in coursework on Thursday and hell yeah I'm free of assignments for now. That was the most tedious assignment I've ever done before in uni so far. Since I started doing it, I've been waking up early every morning and sleeping late after midnight doing it. The day before the deadline, I actually did it till 4am in the next morning before going to bed. Woke up at 7.45 am and went to class. Had sleep only for like 3 hours 45 minutes? lol. Omg fucking stress that time serious. lol

When I handed it in, I was so relieved. Finally, I can sleep early and wake up late again for the weekend. Everyone was rushing it and yea was quite fun haha. Had dinner at home and guess what? I actually went back to the library to save some files into my U drive which I didn't save when I handed in my assignment. Well, hopefully they haven't extracted the files from my driver yet.

Hope to rest as much as possible before starting next week's classes again. :(

Start of 2nd Term

2010-01-17T13:56:00.000-08:00

Its already the 2nd week of 2nd semester and loads of work are starting to pour in. Sounds shitty but pretty interesting and exciting though. Simulink report due Thursday and Project Design Exercise taking place currently. Phew damn stress sia. Today just solved the 2nd Order Differential Equation for the Simulink Coursework and hell yea I'm going to start writing the report itself tomorrow and run the simulations required. Tedious work though.

Yea, it is not that cold already now. Snow stopped and it's back to those gloomy wet days in Birmingham. PS: Foggy too! Nothing much to say now as I'm pretty tired and sleepy to be honest. Going to beed soon after I've written down some important points for my group meeting taking place tomorrow. Decent gourp I reckon for the Project and yea pretty confident of working together and getting some potential high grades for this module to patch up for my above average Conputing for Design module.

Oh well, that's all I suppose. Chinese New Year is coming eh. Another year abroad without CNY celebration with my family and friends back in Malaysia. What can I do though?! huh. lol.

New Year Resolutions Found !

2010-01-12T12:39:00.000-08:00

Now, I have succeeded in finding my new year resolutions. Don't want to be long-winded so here they are:

Be a more organised person.
Tidy up my room.
Arrange my notes and work properly and accordingly.
Talk more! or be more outspoken (This includes crap :)) but not in lectures though :)
Be more observant (This includes observing girls roaming around) NOT stalking :)
Be more productive at working (Has been every year's resolution)
Don't make silly and careless mistakes (Always lets me down at crucial times CB) :)

I thought of writing this because I actually realised how disorganised I am as a student. I can honestly tell you, my room now looks like a junkyard. Papers everywhere. :( In addition to that, being disorganised in my work also triggered me to write. So, disorganise while doing reports and coursework. Just handed in my Lab Reports. Not much of the marks but still a considerable amount. The first and most important report (coz it counts 15% FOR REACTORS AND CATALYSIS) I can say I'm satisfied with it just FORGOTTEN to add 1 value and all because I'm disorganised. CB. Then the second report. Not that important but still... No mistakes done here just forgotten to include a table(s) and explaining how I got to a result. I will definitely lose marks for that I can admit :( However, I did think out of the box this time (hopefully) by including conclusions and recommendations in them although not being requested to do so. No harm putting it in as I don't think they'll deduct marks for doing that. All of these loss of marks are due to me being disorganised and I'm seriously want to be orgnised and that would be my top priority this year. Oh well, have to start by cleaning up my room :) LOL Ciao

Time to return to Midlands

2010-01-02T15:04:00.000-08:00

Yea, my 2 weeks in London has come to an end. I'm going to return back to Brimingham tomorrow which is the 3rd of January 2010! Happy New YEar! My attemps to complete 2 reports have utterly failed. However, I've nearly complete 1 of them and half done the other 1. Not too bad afterall. Apart from those 2 labs reports, I have another Simulink assignment which I started a few days after the start of the winter break but then delayed it because I was stucked in one of the sections; gotta get back to that as soon as possible.

To be honest, I had a very good time in London. Great food, great people especially my cousins :D as well as the temperamental weather which didn't impressed me too much haha. Heard that it's snowing in Birmingham and hell yeah I like snow even though it might be frigging cold outside but then looking at the white view clearly take some pain and suffering off of me :D

This trip to London, I met up with uni friends and went to several places but not many as the bad weather stopped our initial attempts. Had great food with my cousins as well as learning a few new dishes to be prepared for meal. Magnificant! Oh well, my cousins bought me a Trench coat as well as a shirt. A big Thank You to them!

I didn't really do much during my stay here but I have to admit I really did some serious work during my first week here especially nearly finihsing one of my lab reports; a quality one I suppose lol. But the second week wasn't that productive to be honest. Slacked ~~ Was playing Starcraft mostly during the night as well as DotA and now I'm sick of them both because I just got sick of them really. Might take a break from those for an indefinite period. I think my Starcraft got better but still a long way to be "good". I'm no fanatic to be a good Starcraft player. Just trying to be a little bit good in it so that I can at least pawn some ppl when am back in Msia lol. I was a Zerg user so long ago but now I think Terran impresses me the most. Saw several videos on how professional Korean players play using Terran and they are absolutely magnificant! Their micromanagement and macromanagement are just a fun to watch :D Alright save it ! XD

Alright going back Birmingham. It's time to mug again (well at least semi-mug). Gotta refill my fridge with food as I literally finished everything in the fridge before I left for London. ahahahaha XD

Bloody Assignments

2009-12-26T03:51:00.000-08:00

Assignments during Christmas? Unbelievable? Believe it. Since I came here yes I start 1 report and in a week's time I'm almost complete until... I read the actual report format they wanted. Crap. I wrote in such detail which I do not have to. Bloody waste of time aight. Hopefully I can edit and alter everything by Sunday and then start another 1 on Monday and complete it the next weekend. I have to do this because I still have another assignment to complete though the due date for this one is later in January but I still would like to get it done ASAP.

If I can finish early, I would probably do some revision exercises, mostly on Heat Transfer and Process Systems. Those 2 in my opinion are the hardest subjects to me though the others might think otherwise :D

Yea, it has been a quiet but yet interesting Christmas this year. Second time spending Christmas abroad. Oh well, everything will be second time including New Year, Chinese New Year and not to forget my birthday. ~~

I was kinda happy after getting to know my brother's PMR results. Though PMR isn't that tough to start with but getting the perfect score is always sweet =D Congrats to him and hope he keeps up the good work and continue to smash the record books XD

Last but not least, Merry Christmas again and a Happy New Year!!!.

Auf Wiedersehen =D

London as it is

2009-12-20T16:43:00.001-08:00

London, the capital city of England and the most happening city in England as they say XD. Oh well, to me, London, in my personal opinion, is just another ordinary city. Maybe it has more tourist attractions than most cities in England I don't know. Since I came to England, I grew a grudge towards London I don't know why. It isn't my favourite city to be in neither is Birmingham hahaha. Seriously, I don't know which city in England suits me best lol.

However, one thing I do like about London is its public transportation system. Absolutely near perfect if not perfect XD. Nothing is perfect I presume XD. Though the underground is wretched old but it is still operational and doing its job it has been built to do. and not to forget the food here XD. That's one thing I most appreciate most coming to London. Not to say the food in Birmingham is bad but the myriad choices of food in London is absolutely unbelievable in comparison to Birmingham so it would be fair to say London has better variety of food sources compared to Birmingham.

This time coming to London, I received my credit card from my dad, 2 cans of pork and ham XD and last but not least, my trainers XD. Have to thank my cousin for taking them here for me thou! XD. I'll post the pictures of them later in this post. XD.

My stay in London isn't just about resting and relaxing but I've to complete at least 2 out of 3 of my assignments. I've already started abit of it on Sunday and shall be fully focused on it starting from Monday till the day I return back to Birmingham (hopefully). XD.

2nd week of winter break

2009-12-18T12:53:00.000-08:00

It was approximately 2 in the evening of December 17th 2009 when the first snow decended upon the city of Birmingham in UK. It wasn't my first time experiencing this exquisite phenomenon. It means alot to those who never experienced it before just as I did last year. It was the first and there will defnitely be more to come, and while I'm typing out this post, it is estimated to be around -2 degrees celcius in Birmingham itself. However, it is now snowing now though:(

Met up with a friend and went to Malaysian Delight in chinatown and had Prawn Mee or Hokkien Mee (Penang). And now sitting in my living room, waiting for the pizza that I just threw into the oven to cook. I have no idea why I still feel so hungry :(

I'm leaving for London in approximately 3 hours and I hope that I've packed everything necessary for me to stay there for 2 weeks. Initially, I don't want to take a suitcase there but I'm forced to as if I don't take it, I wouldn't be able to pack my clothes for 2 weeks. The suitcase is a large one, and that's the reason why I'm relunctant to take it with me :( But, on the other hand, it would be a good idea as I have things to collect from and cousin, so it's not a bad idea afterall to take the large suitcase there. Later, I would like to travel to the main train station in Birmingham whilst trying to avoid and football fans using the train as that would be very very packed indeed. Aston Villa's Premiership match starts at 3 pm. So, I plan to take the 14:34 train from my place to New Street hoping it wouldn't be so packed already at that time.

Then, I will be taking Virgin from New Street to London Euston station and will be meeting up with my cousin over at Euston Station. I haven't thought of what I'm going to do in London except sinking my mind into the assignments and reports that I have to do during the winter break. What a pain in the ass!

AFter the break, it would be the same old boring routine of waking up early in the morning and going to morning lectures subconsciously. Oh well, we'll see what happens at that time then :)

Start of Winter Break

2009-12-12T13:04:00.000-08:00

Friday was the last day of the Autumn Term and hell yeah it's holidays already! How to start Thursday off? Oh well, went o the last lecture of the term which was Sustainable Development and then got our essay marks which wasn't that impressive. got around 50 ish but oh well luckily it was only 10% of the module so wasn't that critical to be honest. Then, at about 6 pm ish went to Tim's hse with Thiam Hock and Keo and what did we do??? DOTA!!! lol dota from around 7 pm till 9 pm before having late dinner. After that, we chat about some crap until quarter to 12am before continuing playing DotA. We played it till 10 am in the next morning without going to bed.... DMAN shiok right??? lol actually damn tiring lo. Then, we went to uni to get out MATLAB result. I got around 70% ish which in my opinion wasn't that impressive either and this counts for 50% of the module which is MASSIVE indeed!!!

Then friday night, we went to Gatecrahser which is one of the biggest club in Birmingham. Well, was my first time to a club hehe. Shiok? A little bit la lol. Was massively packed. I'm not a fan of clubbing but now I think I know why people love going to that place already. I can honestly say, you can really find lotsa chicks there. No joke. I have no idea how's it in Msia but here it's really packed with them although the day I went there were more guys than girls. Oh well, there's the constant scene where you see people kissing one another at every corner of the club in every single room you go to. SHIOK-NYER!!! Next time should try doing that LOL :D

However, holidays are not entirely free to be honest. I have 3 assignments to be done during this 1 month period and it doesn't sound too good does it? 2 lab reports and 1 Simulink coursework. Anyway, already bought tickets to go down to London on the 19th of December and will be there till the 2nd of January which is about 2 weeks.

MATLAB XD Shiokkkkk-nyerrrrrrr

2009-12-02T13:46:00.000-08:00

Matlab is so freaking shiok now XD. Eat matlab, sleep matlab, bathe matlab, dream matlab, and last but not least SCORE MATLAB!!! oh yeah!!!...... MATLAB FOR THE WIN!!! I love you Matlab and you pls love me too yah? *winks* These are 2 examples of the files in Matlab; The 1st is a file written by my lecturer while the other is by myself.xD

4 more weeks to Winter Break!

2009-11-15T09:28:00.000-08:00

It's jolly time in 3 weeks but before that time comes, I'll have to sustain 3 long weeks of pressure, torture and eye-straining momentssss. 3 assignments to be handed up in the next 2 week. Damn it! Oh well, at least 2 of those I've done about 80 % of it and there's another which i already started it.

It's definitely not a joy to do these assignments. Im more to the exam type of person and not the assignment type of person, though assignments could get you quite a number of marks for your final grading LOL.

Everyday assignments only do until so sien dei...XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Week 5 of Autumm Term

2009-10-29T09:11:00.000-07:00

Phew completed my Personal Statement for my International Exchange next year. Possibly to National University of Singapore, Cornell University or University of Adelaide. Well, obviously NUS is the main choice as I have possibly most reasons to go there XD. I received an email from my mum about 30 minutes after I'd submitted the original statement I composed by myself. The ammended version was slightly longer but possibly more geng chao then mine lol. Oh well, what to do lah. Had a chat with a student from birmingham currently doing his exchange at NUS and erm he said just explain why you want to do exchange and some other bullshit there XD. I did write reasons why I wanted to go abroad. Most of them are made up but made sense though lol.

Apart from submitting the Personal Statement, I'll be getting loads of tutorials, labs and assignments in the comming week. Tiu d la... Stress gile liu... See everyone do tutorials like so pro nia during tutorial session. WTF. tiu d la. LOL. Somemore the fucking MATLAB so fucking confusing. Don't know what the fuck are the codes for. so many fucking lots of them.

I think passing exams are even easier than writing a proper, workable and sophisticated program. What do to. It's the key fundamentals to engineering; MATLAB. Can do lots of complicated and sophisticated problems. Mathematical problems I mean.

Week of Big Spending!

2009-10-24T16:44:00.000-07:00

Oh hell. I spent quite alot this week and practically heartbroken =] Well, it started on Wednesday when I went to Woktastic, a japanese restaurant to have buffet and spent 10 pounds on it. Well, food wasn't that fantastic but was alright. Not really worth the money but oh well, just a try. No harm done I guess.

Then, on Friday, went to have dinner with Danny at the Fusion, spent 4.50 pounds. CB! they increased the food price.

On Saturday, went for the Malaysian Society Induction and Raya Lunch. Spent 10 pounds again. And went for dinner in town at Malaysian Delight. Spent around 9 pounds for Roast Duck rice and some Malaysian White Coffee.

Realised that my fucking Student ID went missing and was fucking pissed for that. Keong kan needa pay 10 pounds for a replacement. I guess I might have dropped it in the Fusion on Friday so, would probably go there to ask on Sunday. If they don't find any missing Student ID then I would have to pay them the fucking 10 quid for a new one.

I think that sums up my week. And oh yea I needa write a personal statement on "Why I would like to do an International Exchange" for my International Exchange Application Form. What the hell man. A personal statement yet again. Beh sien wan meh?! =]

*sighs*

Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook 8th Edition.

2009-10-20T08:18:00.000-07:00

Oh well, received my book prize for getting 60+ overall average for my first year. The all mighty Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook 8th Edition. Massive, heavy, deep-filled with all sorts of chemical, physical data etc. You name it, it has it. Almost more than half of our class got that book so I presume most of them got 60+. Good news eh? Hehe. This book is not much use for the time being but when we need to do our design projects; that's when it becomes highly resourceful and significant.

Well here's a glimpse of it anyways. XD

Something for nothing

2009-10-19T15:39:00.000-07:00

Wah crap man 4th week of uni only but hafta learn lotsa deep deep stuff. What the heck~~ Wah fuck. heat transfer got so many dimensions what the heck. 3D, 2D, 1D and 0D also got. Wow! Impressive.

Summore the bloody liquid mixing systems. Wah cb eh, 1 hour throw us with those fucking equations. Haha. And ar I burnt my frying pan ah cb eh ah. See la need go get another 1 ah cb eh ah. Wah hahahahaha...

1st Society

2009-10-16T03:45:00.000-07:00

I attended my first society in uni after 2 years. Well, I've been in the Malaysian Society but it doesn't really do mcuh you see :) Joined the Birmingham University Chess Club (BUCS). 5 quid for a year of membership; the general fee for most societies I would presume. Erm, had around 15-20 persons turning up? Heh. Didn't do much. Just had a chat and yeah they had a mini-tourney what the fuck?! 4 rounds; each player having 6 minutes of time on the clock.

I haven't played chess for 2 years already? Shit! Moreover, it's 6 minutes =.= Die lah. LOL. Anyway just gave it a go lo since join already aight? Won 2 Drew 1 Loss 1 FUCK LOL. Ok la hor since it's only 6 minutes somemore. I don't like so fast chess to be honest. I can't think so fast >.<. Lost to a Romanian girl. Hahaha. XD

They were going to have a social activity today but I'm too lazy to attend to be honest. Going for a Jazz music session? OMG LOL not my cup of tea LOL. No offence though. I could had grabbed a can of beer yesterday but I was too late as the guy who brought it took it home when I was about to head for it. LOLZ.

So, ended up at home. Rotting infront of the laptop. Going to do some shopping later. Then, defrost my dinced beef and marinate it and cook it LOLZ. Anyway, There'll be an International Exchange talk going on next Wednesday and yeah I think I'm going to attend it. Till then cheers mates.!

A hole in One

2009-10-12T14:59:00.000-07:00

Let me describe my 1st day back in Birmingham. 2 words to describe it. FUCKING COLD!!! Yes fucking cold okay! I didn’t have my duvet with me and I was shivering the whole fucking night. Hahaha. However, I still managed to sleep more than 7 hours? Probably because I slept at half 9 at night and woke up half 9 in the morning. I did wake up 2 times during that time in the midnight because I couldn’t sleep due to the coldness.
Okay, actually, I arrive in Birmingham at around 12.30 in the afternoon at the Birmingham International. Well, I was stucked at the immigration area because there were so many students coming to study in the UK, thus the officers were forced to take extra caution to ensure that only the eligible students are allowed to pass. So, I eventually got through that at around half 1 and I immiediately went to the train station to take the earliest train to Birmingham New Street.
Upon arrival at Birmingham New Street, I took a cab back to my house and not the planned train as I was too tired to take the train and find my own way there. Arrived in the house, and went out to the Finance Office to check with them whether have I paid my tuition fees. But, there were too many students there and me and James went to an ATM machine instead to check my bank balance and well all my money is still there so the 3 PAYMENTS made accidentally by me didn’t go through to the university. Relief relief! ~~
Ate instant noodles that day as I didn’t have any cooking utensils or groceries to start with. Watched television and went to bed at half 9. The only other time I would go to bed such early would be when I’m ill.
Glad to land safe and sound in Birmingham and embracing year 2. However, deep inside I miss Malaysia and everyone there. Don’t know why >.<

It’s second day in Birmingham. Went to Saintsbury again to get some basic needs. Had toast and Milo for breakfast. After buying my things, me and Jon went to the library to use the computers there and to gain access to the internet. In addition to that, we borrowed some reference books that might or might not be useful for my modules, I don’t know. Came back at around 3 pm and we watched X-Men 2 again. Well, pretty good even though it was my second time watching it.
Then, watched television and had to cook for dinner. I was so so so lazy to cook as you know and I’m not a good chef to start with. What did I cook? Well, just fried noodles with bacon + onions + light and dark soya sauce. =.= ||| Simple and was pretty good I guess but I think I added not enough salt and pepper so it was quite plain. Hahaha. Now, I have to plan what to cook for dinner tomorrow. OMFG.
Tomorrow will be the beginning of the first semester and I’m quite looking forward to it to be honest. I’ve been rotting in front of the computer for 3 months + and I think it’s better to get working as I fear too long of an absence from work will eventually shut my whole system down and that time would be a real GG!!!
Tomorrow breakfast eat what? Bread with butter la!!! Apa lagi?! Lunch? Sandwich la!!! Apa lagi?! Dinner? Maybe I’ll cook rice this time with scramble eggs provided I get my cooking pot back from my friend who’s keeping it with him still.
So, I hope to meet some Malaysians tomorrow who might be those coming from Taylor’s University College Malaysia for the second year of Chem Eng. Chiao~~~~~~~~~~~ Work work work!
Gehen Sie aus!!! LOL

Wohooo first day of lecture and 3rd day in Birmingham. Went for the introduction to second year at 11 am at the Sports and Exercise Science Centre. As usual, I was reunited with all the faces of chemical engineers from last year. Apart from that, there were also 8 if I’m not wrong students from direct entry into second year most of them which I reckon to be Malaysians from Taylor’s University College. Didn’t do much just got an introduction to our second year modules and stuff.
After that, me Jon and James went back to our house and had lunch before setting out again for another computer class at 2 pm till 5 pm. Revision of MatLab and Excel. OMG programming sucks eh. LOL.
Right after that, we went back to chill for a bit before going out to an Indian restaurant for dinner as it was James’ birthday. The food was good however the portion was a little too big for me. I reckon those portions I had in London with my cousin was far smaller than those served here. >.<
Well, lots of thanks to James for the dinner as he paid for it.  Went home and watched Batman Begins. It was my second time watching it. Was pretty sleepy but I managed to finish it though. After that, I went up and played Counter-Strike for awhile before going straight to bed.
GUTEN NACHT!!! XD

It’s the 4th day in Birmingham. I’ll be having only 1 lecture today at 2pm till 5pm. It’s about programming. Tch Crap. I might go and pay my tuition fees later or might not but I’ll most probably get my other stuff back from Syahrul ie some books, pot and I don’t know what. Today I might just be taking pizza as I haven’t bought my cooking utensils yet. I might buy them on Wednesday after meeting up with Danny to return his things to him.
Oh well, today I’ll be trying to decide which MOMD to take for this year. I want to take Materials Engineering as an Option but I was told 3 months ago that the time for it clashes with the Chem Eng Modules. So, I don’t know what to do yet. 
First proper lecture on balancing once more tch. Wasn’t that tough as it seems today but I’m very as the tutorial on Monday would be way tougher than the examples given today.
Cooked rice + scramble egg + bacon + capsicum for dinner. Rice was a bit solid but edible and I felt it was a pretty good attempt. Even after eating I still feel hungry. Don’t know why though. Didn’t go through what Mr Thomas taught and went to bed.

Day 5 it was and had 2 morning lectures today. It gets tougher and tougher day by day and I was scratching my head when Mr. Robbins was explaining feedback and feedforwarding. I WAS HUNGRY!!! at that particular class. Tch.
Went to see Jason for my MOMD choice and I was told by him to go to the Materials Engineering Department to ask for the time slots for the MOMD. As anticipated, the time slot didn’t fit into my Chemical Engineering timetable and I couldn’t take it as a MOMD. FUCK.
Headed back to my house and took Danny’s stuff for him. Met Clarinda on the way and decided to go to the Mechanical Engineering Department to enquire about another MOMD that might interests us and again we were delivered the sucker punch when we were told we couldn’t take it as it clashes with our timetable. Again, FUCK.
Arrived home and sat in front of my laptop browsing through the MOMD choices that I still got. I think I’ll choose either Data Analysis and Experimental or Sustainable Development. Diu want to choose 1 MOMD also so hard meh. What the fuck man.
Going eat Pizza today as I’m having a blister on one of my toes and that definitely deterred me from walking to Saintsbury to get my cooking utensils. I might have rice with bake beans and others tomorrow as I still have leftover rice from yesterday. And I’ll be going to pay for my tuition fees tomorrow.
Sunday I’m going to town to get some stuff but I haven’t planned when to go or to go with who yet.

Weekend at last! Woke up around 9 in the morning. Took a shower and had breakfast. Was upstairs doing some stuff before going down and watched Back to the Future. Had lunch and went to the university library to check my mails and to look at some books.
Waited there until Muiz texted me to inform me that he was ready to go to town. Went to town and met up with Muiz and Syahrul at Sing Fat. My first visit to Sing Fat by the way. After that, we went to Latiff’s warehouse located somewhere which I don’t even it myself. Bought some cooking utensils and then accompanied Syahrul to the indoor market as he wanted to buy some fishes to cook.
Headed to Primark as I wanted to buy another extra duvet cover for 6 pounds. Right after that, we heade back to Selly Oak. Dinner time, and I cooked fried noodles with bacon, garlic, salad and capsicum. Pretty filling to be honest even though there wasn’t much meat inside it.
Watched Matrix after that and did some work. Couldn’t get the desired answer for one of the Heat Transfer question. WHAT THE FUCK… So near yet so far……..! Anyway I’ll try it again tomorrow as I’m not in the mood now to solve it.
Oh ya and I’m still considering my MOMD,
1. Environmental Economics
2. Sustainable Development or
3. Enterprise and Economic Geography
Fuck them man, got so many MOMD related to engineering but only 2 that don’t clash with our Chemical Engineering timetable. If that’s the case why don’t just abolish the bloody MOMD. Like it’ll make any difference. LOLZ~~
=.=

2nd week of Autumn term, and there has been quite a lot of things taught already although not much in depth. There’ll be erm around 5 core modules taught this term and a MOMD I’ve chosen. They are:
1. Computing for Design
2. Liquid Mixing Systems
3. Mass, Heat and Momentum Transfer
4. Process Integration and Unit Operations
5. Process Systems
6. Sustainable Development (MOMD)
I’ve met all the lecturers for all the modules and I think the most interesting so far would be Dr. Mark Simmons’ Liquid Mixing Systems. Most boring of all would the one by Dr. Robbins ie. Process Systems.
Computing for Design is not my cup of tea although it may be quite interesting considering the fact that it deals with programmes such as MATLAB, PRO/II and Microsoft Excel and it’s a module which is fully based on coursework. 50% coming from MATLAB test and another 50% from PRO/II and Excel flowsheeting coursework.
Liquid Mixing Systems is something related to the fluids learnt back in Year 1. Some basic stuff are needed to do it meaning I’ll have to dig into last year’s lecture notes to recall what I’d been taught back then.
Mass, Heat and Momentum transfer is something like fluid, thermodynamics and heat transfer back from first year with the addition of some complex equations and theories.
Process Integration and Unit Operations is similar to Phase Equilibria (Chemical and Biochemical Processes) from year 1 as it is related on finding the height of distillation columns and so on.
Process Systems is a module where we are taught on how control systems are integrated into a chemical plant to make it fully operational and preventing any unwanted events though there may be from time to time.
Sustainable Development is the MOMD or option that I chose but it might or might not be permanent as I’m still considering whether should I continue with it or change to another one. Deals with renewable sources, hydrogen fuel cells, etc.
Should I say the stress is coming to me? Oh yes it is! Looking at just the modules’ names is already making my head spinning. Moreover, this year counts so I do reckon it to be very competitive and stressful. What to do lah, it’s like that. Serious AWSUM-NESS!!~~|||
Oh yea need to get latest MATLAB and PRO/II from Syahrul once he downloads it. LOLX XD
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~~~~~

It was Friday and it’s a free day as I have no classes on Friday besides some labs that will only start maybe during week 5. Was in the Chemical Engineering Department to check my mails and to print some lecture notes and tutorials. Found out that there was a Personal Skills Award (PSA) exhibition on at the Nuffield Building. So, went to have a look there. It was basically some modules or activities that you can take and they are accredited and may help promote yourself even better when you’re trying to get a job as the employers will know that you have other skills besides academic excellences. It looks interesting but I haven’t decided to take one or not just yet.
There’s a Scavenger Hunt organized by the Malaysian Society University of Birmingham but I don’t think I’m going though as it’s drizzling and it’s gonna be so fucking cold outside; below 10 degree C. Had Fish and Chips and going to have fried chicken later. Both for only 2 pounds. Worth or not? I don’t know?! LOL. Makan je la lol. Going to have hot coffee later wooooo nice especially during this cold day.
Virgin staff will be here tomorrow (hopefully)xD to set up the internet, phone and tv and hopefully it can be done without any hassle so that I can finally access the internet at home and needless to walk to the university to use the internet access there. There’s nothing much to do during the weekends. I’d already bought food for next week well hopefully it lasts and doesn’t turn bad before next Friday.
Plan to do some revision tonight as I don’t know what else to do honestly besides doing revision. Haven’t gone through heat transfer and process systems yet. Thus, hopefully I’ll get to them later. I’m having an industrial visit to drugs company Astra Zeneca sometime later in November I think. I don’t know anyone in my group except for 1 chinese guy from China. This sucks. Furthermore, we have to do some questionnaire and write a report on our visit there. Sucks.
Having completed an example of Heat Transfer and hell it was tedious on first attempt but I’m sure it’ll get easier. So, what am I going to do after that? Well, I’m having MATLAB running on my computer now and I might revise it lolz.
2 words – FUCKING SIEN~.~

Damn fucking Virgin staff didn’t show up in B’ham instead went to Jon’s house in London to set up the internet. What the fuck! Bunch of fools. Again no internet until I don’t know when. Damn sohai. Stucked at home with no internet. Was revising Process Systems and I don’t know what the fuck is it all about. Fuck it. xD
And it’s getting near winter and that can only mean 1 thing. COLD times coming soon. Actually, it’s already damn cold now. I’m not even using the heater yet. =.= Trying to save gas. XD. It’s sunny but it’s damn cold. What the hell is going on. At least, I have some games to fill my boredom. FEAR Perseus Mandate and Starcraft = Awsum-ness LOLZ.
Well, will get back to Process Systems later and hope to fully understand it HOPEFULLY!? Tomorrow is weekdays as usual; week 3 already. Meaning there are 8 more weeks to go before winter break. XD. Yeehaaa. Winter do what I also don’t know. Maybe travelling or perhaps staying at home rotting as usual.
Heard from my brother that PMR was tough but oh well, I reckon he’ll ace it anyways. Whatever exams from the government are easy except STPM of course because you know why. No point elaborating on that.
FUCK YOU LAH VIRGIN when are you coming to set up my internet for me!??????? Richard Branson! Please get your lazybump staffs to work their arses off! Was on the phone for 1 fucking hour and no one picked up the bloody phone. Incredulous shit this is.
Stress Sial~~

3rd last day

2009-09-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

What can I say about this. I've been returning home late late around 1 to 2 am these few last days of stay in Malaysia and I really enjoyed it. 3rd last day huh? Well, I met up with Jacky, Jesper, Justin, Thiam Hoo and Thomas for Final Destination 3D. Sad to say, it was not as spectacular as it seems. Wearing the 3D spectacles on top of my spectacles was totally uncomfortable.

Went to Penang Bowl after that and played 3 games. Won 1 and was the runner-up twice. (sorry I don't know how to play wan). =) Wish I had more time to play more bowling before going back but well have to wait till next year to play again :(

After bowl, we went for dinner at New Lane. Had Hokkien Prawn Mee and wasn't really good but might as well just enjoy it instead of complaining about it. Headed to Jacky's home after that and we ended up playing Counter-Strike there. 3 PCs linked up by LAN. Jacky's Windows Vista 64 bit means he couldn't play it. Sad case! Or not 4 of us could really make a 'good' team hahaha.

Was there until 11 pm before heading back home. Well, I think this will be the last time meeting with them before going back UK and will probably see them back next year in June. =(

Real Estate

2009-09-13T01:26:00.001-07:00

I think I've found another way of making money... Investing in real estate LOL... But before that need $$$ first! =.=

REMEDY - LITTLE BOOTS

2009-09-11T18:45:00.000-07:00

REMEDY

LITTLE BOOTS

Great song by the english chick XD

I can see you stalking like a predator
I've been here before
Temptation calls like Adam to the apple
But I will not be caught
Coz I can read those velvet eyes
And all I see is lies

No more poison
Killing my emotion
I will not be frozen
Dancing is my remedy, remedy, oh
Stop stop preying
Coz I'm not not playing
I'm not frozen
Dancing is my remedy, remedy, oh

Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
I've got a remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
Here is my remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Spin me faster like a kaleidoscope
All I've got's the floor
Yeah, you can try but I've found the antidote
Music is the cure
So you can try to paralyze
But I know best this time

No more poison
Killing my emotion
I will not be frozen
Dancing is my remedy, remedy, oh
Stop stop preying
Coz I'm not not playing
I'm not frozen
Dancing is my remedy, remedy, oh

Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
I've got a remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
Here is my remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

La-da, da-da, la-da, la-da, da-da-da
Da-da, da-da, da-da-da-da, la-da

And when the music fades away
I know I'll be okay
Contagious rhythm in my brain
Let it play

No more poison
Killing my emotion
I will not be frozen
Dancing is my remedy, remedy, oh
Stop stop preying
Coz I'm not not playing
I'm not frozen
Dancing is my remedy, remedy, oh

Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
I've got a remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
Here is my remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
I've got a remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Move while you're watching me
Dance with the enemy
Here is my remedy
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

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Random Shit

2009-09-10T21:27:00.000-07:00

Out of a sudden, I thought about my college days. hurrrr... it wasn't the best days of my life though I have to admit that making new friends there were great and pleasant. I've always been asking myself whether I've ever regretted entering college to take A Levels instead of just going into Form 6 to pursue STPM. Well, I can say that I don't regret going to Disted and not going for Form 6 and those memories I had back in Disted were absolutely real and fun. However, the only regret that I have would be not strving hard enough to score in my A Levels. It still haunts me till today and I'll never be able to forget it. How would I wish I could turn back the clock and return back 2 years ago when I was there. *sigh*.

A Levels was tough and I wish I realised that sooner rather than later and that really cost me dearly. If I got better results, I could imagine myself patrolling Orchard Road or strolling in Suntech City in Singapore. Yes, I have to admit I'm a big freako of Singapore and I can't explain why. Many people would say "Oi, you get to go UK, what for you want to go Singapore"! Well, mayb just many Malaysians tend to go there and I do feel being left out hahaha. I'll settle for NTU as I know NUS would be damn unrealistic though not impossible. But, everything seems bleak and hopes evaporated when I got my results!

What Mr Chan said was so true. "Your result is proportional to your effort" definitely applies here. Why didn't I heed his advice? Why didn't I realise how hard it was going to be? Well, till now I can't really seem to find a proper answer to that. One thing I know though was I was lazy during those days and I can't explain what happened XD!

People tend to compare between A Levels and STPM. I don't know which is tougher but I can say that A Levels is more recognised and you do learn more things in STPM. I have no say in this matter.

It's not that I hate UK or what but just that, UK is more expensive than Singapore for sure considering the fact that the exchange rate is so fucking high due to the useless economy of Msia. Turn back the clock to 1993 if Im not wrong the exchange was 1 GBP = rm 3.XX now? 1 GBP = rm 5.8X . Look at the difference?! If it wasn't for the recession i think it would rm 7.XX. Good riddance!

UK has its own advantages and disadvantages. If you're on scholarship or filthy rich, then of course UK can definitely be your top destination. coz you don't have to worry about ya finance you see. But most Malaysians here especially chinese pay by their own unlike the Malays who get sponsored. Yes, I have to agree that some Malays do deserve to get Scholarship though. I don't wanna dwell on this matter or not I'll succumb to ISA investigation haha.

Anyway, I do advise, those taking STPM or A Levels, study hard and manage your time wisely. I didn't do that and I'd to suffer the consequences.

Mr Chan Ka Kieng (Disted Math Lecturer) - "Your result is proportional to your effort".

Screw this shit haha

2009-09-08T10:21:00.000-07:00

MY ENQUIRY:

Dear Chris Dickinson,

I'm just wandering, since I obtained 70% and above during my first year chem eng course, would I be eligible to upgrade my Achivement Scholarship (£1000) to the Excellence Scholarship (£1500) where I'll receive an additional £500 ?

Kind regards,

Paul Ma (977306)

THE UNWANTED ANSWER THAT WAS DELIVERED:

Dear Paul

I understand this news may be rather disappointing for you, but the scholarship you received is awarded on entry to the University according to the entry criteria and no further awards are made during your course of study. Hence, there is no mechanism for you to receive a larger scholarship - the amount you receive each year does not change in spite of good performance. I do sympathise.

Best wishes
Jason

SCREW THIS SHIT FOR REAL HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

25 days to GG-ness

2009-08-30T04:43:00.000-07:00

Approxminately 25 more days before I'm flying back Birmingham and I have many things to accomplished actually and much more money to be spent on them. Damn!!!

1. Visit the dentist
2. Change my glasses
3. Buy a sweater
4. Pay my fees (Optional I suppose)
5. Book my flight from Penang to KL
6. Get stationery
7. Top-up my Vodafone number
8. Get my scope done
9. Have a short mini reunion (Maybe)
10. Makan
11. Watch 'Orphan'
12. Buy lottery
13. Go temple
14. Visit Times Square

LOL - Many more to come XD

Not well not well...

2009-08-22T21:36:00.000-07:00

I'm not feeling so well~~ Having a sore throat and I guess a flu would foolow suit. ~~. In addition to that, I'm having stomach discomfort. I feel like vomitting everytime I have a proper meal and this sucks; I couldn't afford to be like this back in UK. ~~ Maybe I feel like this because of my nose as it affects my throat and causes me to feel like vomitting ~~ or it's just because of my stomach that has been having lots of air inside it WTF!!! LOL

Anyway hope to be well soon and feast on somemore food during my last month's stay here~~ XD

2 months in Malaysia

2009-08-16T10:35:00.000-07:00

I've ben in Malaysia for 2 months already. Sad man it means I'll have to get my butt back to Birmingham in 1 month's time. I've mixed feelings actually. After 2 months here, I've been longing to go back to UK and I can be assured that those thoughts will instantenously change when I reach UK.

So, what have I accomplished during my second month? Well, nothing much in particular as usual. Seriously a dull and boring summer so far eventhough I have to admit there were some extraordinary and precious moments spent with my family and friends. I've been waiting for my Uni registration letter if any but that's not the thing that's pissing me off. What's pissing me off is I've never gotten a reply from any of the University Staff I'd emailed them after several working days. WTF man!

Gotten to meet friends of college as well as some from secondary school. I seriously miss all of them be it males or females. Am no sexist LOL. Wonder when can all of us gather together as we usually do in college and secondary school. Hope it'll be soon. Fingers-crossed!

Besides that, been hearing stories and experiences from pals regarding life in Msians Universities adn yea I'm glad I'm able to pursue my uni education somewhere outside of Msia. If given a choice I think most people would choose to study outside of Msia rather than in its public universities but some people couldn't afford the big sum of money involved, thus had to settle for a public uni. So, I'm really grateful that I have the chance to pursue my degree in UK. Opportunity knocks but once!

Well well, I'll fully use my 1 month + holidays to fully enjoy my life here in Msia before heading back to UK to battle the extreme weather and kind-of-hectic uni life. Haha.

AweSUM Weekend!

2009-08-16T03:30:00.000-07:00

One of the best weekends since coming back from UK. Yes it was! Started on Saturday morning where I went to Rolo Khor's Small birthday lunch at Wonderland Restaurant somewhere at the KOMTAR multi-storey carpark. Met up with Rolo, Zet, Yu Jaan, Ken, Mandy as well other friends of Rolo. Thx mate for the lunch. Yea, it was actually good considering the price of the buffet.

After that, me, Zet, Rolo and Alex went to Zet's house to play DotA. Haha yea sien game but it can be interesting if there're many friends to play with. Played the first match and we lost. As expected you see. Played the second and potential last match and guessed what? We won! We were on the brink of defeat and out of nowhere we managed to nicked the game from the opponent! Have to say it was the best games of DotA I'd ever played in my life. Goodjob lads!

We decided to go to Gurney for a movie at night. We went to Pulau Tikus to have our dinner and left for Gurney soon after. It was crowded in Gurney as usual. I had to settle for a parking lot at the new wing. We wanted to go for a horror movie and in the end decided to watch The Screen at Khamchanot! I have to say... It was a bloody waste of money! Scary but the plot and storyline suck to the max~~~ Not worth the money paid. Went home after the movie. Had to sleep early as me, Alex, Chuck Chuan and Shin Yong are going to meet up at Gurney Drive's McD the following morning at around 7.30 am!?

So, Sunday it was. Reached McD at around 7.30am as expected. Talked with Alex and Chuck Chuan. Shin Yong joined us at around 9 or 9.30 am if I'm not wrong. Talked some crap and yea it was good though it was quite short. Natalie couldn't make it and I think because she was too sleepy. Haha. Then, we dropped Shin Yong back at her house and we went to Chuck's new house. Nice indeed! After that, we dropped Alex back to his house as he had to go back to Perak already. Chuck and I went back to mua home and he got a firm and mind-blowing lecture on Our Malaysian History from my parents. Haha. Well, that's all today and hope to see them ASAP again! Till then best of luck~~~

P/S : I'm still thinking how we pawned those noobs in GG. LOL

F***ing UoB

2009-08-12T20:36:00.001-07:00

University of Bham is one hell of a nooob uni... Nvr reply my emails and havent sent me my year 2 registration pack.... NoobAss u... Later I can't go back in time for week 1 briefing... KNS !!!

PIKOM PC Fair

2009-08-09T22:42:00.000-07:00

9th of August was the last day of the PEnang PIKOM PC Fair held at PISA. Went there at around 5.15 pm and as expected the are lots and lots of people there swarming the entrace of PISA. This year I went there with my dad as for previous years, I went with my dad and his friends. I only had afew things on my mind. A mouse, a speaker for laptop and a laptop cooler.

Roamed PISA for about 2 hours and finally only got the mouse I wanted. Well, my dad bought a 500GB external harddisk and HP DVD-R and some HP printer inks. I saw some speakers but then didn't really catch my attention too much. Laptop cooler well saw a few but then I decided to stick with the junk cooler I'm using now. The most expensive thing I got would be the one and only thing, Razer Diamondback 3G mouse.

188 bucks? around 34 quid? I'm not sure how much is the actual price but I would presume it's somewhere there as I don't think Razer would lower their price much. Was choosing between Death Adder and Diamondback but eventually decided to buy the later as I don't really like Adder's design though.

After that went to Kayu to have dinner and went back. I'm still adjusting to the Razer mouse I bought. >.<

AM NOW OFFICIALLY BROKE!!!!!!

Registration pack

2009-08-06T18:49:00.000-07:00

Sudah lah lama I register untuk tahun kedua kat University. Sudahpun 2 minggu++ tetapi I masih menunggu Registration Pack I untuk tiba WTF? Pack itu menjelaskan benda-benda yg I patut sediakan atau lakukan sebelum balik ke UK and document-document yg perlu disahkan ataupun ditunjukkan kepada imigresen UK and It's still not here ~~

KL 31st July 2009

2009-07-31T03:06:00.000-07:00

I've arrived in KL safe and sound after a long 5 hour journey by bus. Arrived at the old KTM station at around 3pm. Got off it and immediately started to look for a taxi to Bukit Jalil where Zicky lives. And guess what I was as dumb as a blonde when I paid the taxi driver twice the usual fee to reach my destination. When Zicky told me that the most would only be RM 25 or less than RM 30, I was like 'What the F***'. Again got owned by the taxi driver. Well everything has it's first time and this will be the first and last time I get pawned by the taxi driver from KTM to Bukit Jalil. Diu Nia Seng LOL. Forgive me for my vulgarity but I just can't find a way to conceal it ATM.

So, went on to Zicky's flat and well 25th floor it is. Impressed... I wouldn't dare to live on the 25th floor TBH. According to Zet, who's coming back on the 1st of August, we will be meeting one another at Mid Valley. Well the time will be confirmed soon enough. We'll try to gather as many college friends as possible even though I doubt there'll be more than 5? LOL Yes it is LOL. Later Zicky and I are going for dinner and then going to Cybercafe? LOL I guess that'll be the plan for the night. Damn no life man we all LOL. And yes indeed we went to Cybercafe for 3 hours at BlitZone. Cool cc that is way better than those in Penang.

Will be in KL mayb until Monday I suppose before I follow Zet back to Penang. Home sweet home Penang~~. However, for the moment, I'll try my best to enjoy my stay here. 2 more months in Malaysia ONLY!!! I'll be damned!!!

1 month in Msia!

2009-07-26T20:38:00.000-07:00

Well it's already been 1 month since I'm back in Malaysia. Guess how I wrapped it up? By visiting NetCity LAN Centre and playing Garena at home haha. Damn funny.

For the first time in around 9 months, I visited NetCity once more. Went with William. We played DotA and Counter-Strike. Well we won 1 game and lost 1 in DotA and Counter-Strike? Totally got OWNED!!! LOL Wanted to stay longer but I'm not really used to driving at night so went for dinner at around 7++ pm at KFC in Island Plaza. We talked and joked and yeah was a good day actually.

Well it was Jackson's birthday and so we wanted to call Tomato to hang out somewhere which would be NetCity lo wherelse la. Gurney? Tak mau la. Queensbay? Too far wei. So, I called Tomato to ask him whether he was free but he couldn't make it because he was going to have dinner with his family and then going to clubbing with his friends. Damn!!! In the end, we decided to go for supper without Tomato.

Before that we played Garena for awhile before I eventually came up with the idea. Why not just visit NetCity to kill some time? Haha. And we did eventually decided to go there to play some games before heading out for supper. So, we went there at around quarter to 9? Played DotA, Counter-Strike and Fifa 09 before leaving at around half 11 pm. At first we wanted to go to the hawker centre opposite PCGHS but had to settle for Subaidah LOL. In the end, we went back around 12.30 am and that was the story of the day.

Then on Sunday. Was a boring day too as usual. Woke up, went breakfast, went Queensbay for lunch, back home, stare at the laptop and dinner lorh... At night I saw Mr Loh Yin Qi was online in MSN so called him to ask whether he wanted to play Garena or not lo and he said ok lo (That bugger has a test on monday and he still agreed to join) LOL funny him. Played till 2.30 am before dropping dead on my bed.

Well well what a 'productive' weekend to cap off my first month in Malaysia XD!!!

I'll be going to KL from the 31st of July till 3rd of August and might proceed to Singapore if I could strike a plan with Zet and of course get permission from my parents. We plan to go clubbing in KL as proclaimed by Zet but we'll see what and in case that doesn't happen, we'll just have to settle for DotA? Haha! We'll see what happens down in KL. LOL.

AUF WIEDERSEHEN!!!

What's becoming of Malaysia today?

2009-07-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

It's deeply saddening and depressing to hear all the things that are currently going on in Malaysia. What is this lah? Aduh. depressing man... I love Malaysia! I was borned in Malaysia. I was raised in Malaysia. But I'm not studying in Malaysia now and I have no idea whether should I come back to serve the country when I eventually graduate from overseas. You tell me.

Reflecting on all the things that have happened, the chances of me living in Malaysia after graduating seems to be ZERO? I'm not a racist or maybe alittle bit racist. To be honest, I don't care who rules the country be it the Malays, Chinese or Indians as long as they f***ing do their job and make the country a better place to live in. I don't care. I just want Malaysia to be a better country. I'm not an opposition party supporter neither am I a government party supporter. I support whichever party that does the better job in keeping the country going. I might sound like I'm a hypocrite but I'm not. As things are going now. I pretty much would support the opposition party anyway.

The decision to teach Bahasa Malaysia in Science and Math seems absolutely absurd not only to me but to majority of the citizens of Malaysia. I don't even need to ask any of my friends as I know their answers beforehand. If students can't pick up learning the language then why not just find a way to improve the english language rather than reverting back to Bahasa Malaysia. Our English or rather so-called Manglish is already atrocious and now they want to change back teaching Science and Math in BM? LMAO! We'll see what happens in the future. No point changing actually as they'll eventually learn everything in English during pre-u and in university. What a joke!

Good grace! God! please save my beloved country from oblivion!

Back to Cyberlife

2009-07-20T20:01:00.000-07:00

With no friends to hang out with and the reluctance to spend money is really taking its toll on me, my dear. I've been going through the whole same routine daily practically. Wake up; Breakfast; A little newspaper reading; Cabal; Lunch; Cabal; Sleep; Cabal; Dinner; Cabal!

Omg this is really pissing me off. Haha. But what can I muster? No college friends available to hang out with while secondary school friends are enjoying their time of their lifes in their respective universities. Feeling jealous? Might probably be the case now?! Haha.

Went back to Cabal (MMORPG) just because my brother is playing it but then again he's not such an active player anymore as he's mugging for his PMR. If he wasn't there, I wouldn't even be bother to train a sucky character from Level 0 and Novice rank again... Damn tedious and ATP draining! I think my cells in my eyes are also dehydrating and dying due to the constant staring at the laptop screen WTF?!

Besides Cabal, I also turned my attention to some crappy facebook games like Barn Buddy... WTF I know haha... Still do some starcraft-ing but seldom as I'm sick of playing with AI and there are not many players playing in Garena.

Now just hoping that there'll be more useful daily activities to make myself pre-occupied so as to prevent myself from using too much of the laptop which will subsequntly make my eyesight worse. @_@ ~~

Cheers mate!

Malaysia! XD First Update!

2009-07-16T20:07:00.000-07:00

Teehee… I’ve been back in Malaysia for almost 2 months now and I’ve got left 2 more months to spend here before going back to UK. What have I been doing the whole month? Good question eh? I’ve done practically nothing productive besides starting to go to gym… The others are the usual daily routines i.e eating, sleeping, day-dreaming, playing pc games (Hooked on Starcraft BTW lol) and talking nonsense. Loads of crap practically.

During the 1^st week, I actually met a few secondary school friends before their departure to their respective varsities. Wish could have spent more time with them. But I guess they’ll be having a week’s break during August so hopefully we’ll be able to meet again! Fingers-crossed! :D TBH, I didn’t meet many of them during that time, I only met erm about 3 or 4 of them perhaps? They are, Jeffrey Koh, Min Tze and Chuck Chuan. Well the rest were scared about the contagious H1N1, so they didn’t want to take the risk to meet someone returning from a country that has quite a reasonable number of infections which took place. Haha. Couldn’t blame them aight?

Second week of the summer holidays, I went to Kuala Lumpur with my grandma, uncle and aunt. I was there just to accompany my grandma though. As expected, it was a boring and tedious journey. However, I wouldn’t regret for following them back there as I actually got to meet a friend whom I met in UK who was doing a exchange programme in UK. So, was actually quite grateful to have gone to KL. Haha. My uncle also took me and my grandma to Seremban to have a look at his old old house when he was living there and subsequently headed to Malacca for a so-called day trip. Well, it was my first time there so I was pretty amazed by that place except for the traffic congestion. One has to walk by foot to actually explore the historical place TBH. But again, I didn’t get to fully explore the place and departed soon after. My grandma and I were back in Penang on Friday after a week spent in KL or more accurately Puchong, Selangor Darul Ehsan XD.

Now to the 3^rd week! I’ve been practically eating for this whole week. However, as usual I don’t really gain any weight! Joined a gym on the 13^th of July I guess? On that day I was just trying out some of the equipment and a trainer came up to me and taught me the proper way of using it and he said, “Boy, you should really eat more and put on more weight”! LMAO. I knew that was coming. I had a session with a personal trainer on Thursday and OMFG I have no stamina and strength and I was totally so shitty haha. So, no choice but to do some work-outs when I wake up every morning =.=”. I shall wait for the pain and sore to recuperate before taking another session with the trainer. Today is “Pai gor” and I’m meeting a college friend later (hopefully he doesn’t PPK me lah) lol. Where to? I don’t know! Haha.

Shall be back for more!!!

"I can see what you see not.

Vision milky, then eyes rot.

When you turn they will be gone,

Whispering their hidden song.

Then you see what cannot be,

Shadows move where light should be.

Out of darkness, out of mind,

Cast down into the Halls of the Blind."

Pua's Mighty 'Pen'

2009-07-03T01:50:00.000-07:00

A MALAYSIAN HELPED TAIWAN EARNED $31 BIL ALL BECAUSE OF OUR BRAIN DRAINED SYSTEMSubject: $31bil - Truly ..... an inspiring story !

Subject: $31bil
Pua's mighty 'Pen'

S. INDRAMALAR speaks to the creator of the now indispensable Pen DriveFact fileName: Pua Khein SengAge: 31Hometown: Sekinchan, SelangorEducation: SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, TaiwanOccupation: Engineer/ president of Phison Electonics CorpCurrent base: Taipei, TaiwanYears abroad:12

WHEN he set off for Taiwanin 1993, Pua Khein Seng's only aim was to complete his degree in Electrical Control Engineering at the renowned ChiaoTungUniversityand return home to work in Malaysia.Never did he envision himself heading a multi-million dollar Taiwanese company that developed the world's first USB flash removable disk, which they called Pen Drive.[IMAGE]Pua Khein Seng went to Taiwanto get his engineering degree but ended up staying on, starting his own company and inventing the pen drive. "I went to Taiwan to pursue my undergraduate degree. I chose Taiwan only because it was too expensive to study either in the United States or Singapore."However, I did well in my undergraduate programme and was offered a place to do my masters," explained Pua, who was back in Kuala Lumpurrecently for a holiday.After completing his Masters in July 1999, Pua worked for about six months in a local company before deciding to set up his own venture company with four fellow engineers who had studied with him at Chiao Tung."We were confident that we had the know-how and ability to start our own business, which is focused on USB technology. The company is called Phison because there are five of us - two Malaysians and three Taiwanese engineers," said Pua, 31, who hails from Sekinchan, Selangor. Phison Electronics Corporation was set up in November 2000 and within six months the young entrepreneurs came up with their first invention - a USB storage device called Pen Drive."We were the first company in the world to develop the USB Drive SoC (System On Chip) and we were very confident that the market for USB will be huge. At the time, no one believed in us so we had to do everything ourselves - from developing the technology, the chips to the product itself."We were only 27 at the time and inexperienced. But we were confident that we could design good systems and chips but we didn't know anything about selling.

So, we sought partners or traders who could help sell our products for us," Pua added.Through smart partnerships and shrewd strategies, Phison soon made its way into European, American and Japanese markets. One quick move was securing Japanese tech giant Toshiba as Phison's largest shareholder and customer."We launched Pen Drivein June 2001 and by August the same year, we broke even! From September 2001, we were reaping monthly profits from our invention and there has been no turning back since." Having established himself in Taiwan, Pua is in the midst of setting up Phison's branch in Malaysia, due to begin operations this February."I am starting a branch in Malaysia because this is my country. I would like to do contribute to its development."We have about 100 engineers at Phison in Taiwan, 20 of whom are Malaysians.

Though they studied in Taiwan, I had to re-train all the engineers I hire because, like most fresh graduates (in this field), they are not industry-ready upon graduation."Unfortunately, some of the Malaysian engineers want to return home after a couple of years because they are homesick, about to start a family and so on. Some prefer to work in Singapore, as it is closer to home. Instead of losing them to competitors, I decided to set up an office in Malaysiawhere they can still work for me," said Pua. Another problem faced by returning computer engineers from Taiwan, Pua added, was the lack of job opportunities for hardware engineers in Malaysia."There is no environment or support for design engineers here in Malaysia. One of my Malaysian engineers from Phison returned home and ended up as a teacher in a Chinese school! I was shocked and thought, 'After all that training and re-training, he is going to just teach?' I told him to hold on till I open up the Phison branch in Malaysia."Though he has been in Taiwan for the past 12 years and married to a Taiwanese, Pua is not sure how much longer he will remain there."I have really no idea where I will be in 20 years. Maybe Taiwan, maybe Malaysia, maybe somewhere else ... it all depends on my business. The industry is moving so fast that I cannot predict what or where I will be," he said. For the moment though, Taiwan is home for Pua, his wife and two children even though he misses the Malaysian way of life."I come home once a year for Chinese New Year and will usually stay for about two weeks. There are several things I really miss about Malaysia. One is the food! For the past 12 years I have been craving for Malaysian food ... I miss laksa, curry noodles, chee cheong fun and all the other delicious dishes we have here."I also miss the lifestyle and quality of life here. When I come back, I am always amazed to see people hanging out and relaxing at mamak shops at night. In Taiwan, most people would still be at work at that time of the night! "Before I got married, I used to work for 15 to 17 hours a day, everyday.

Now that I have children, my wife has forbidden me to stay so late. Now, I go to work at 9am and come home by 11pm. These hours are quite normal for the Taiwanese.

"The man who invented USB pen-drive is a young modest Malaysian who can't even get into a local University but invented the most versatile, indispensable computer peripheral today. And helped his adopted country, Taiwan made $31bil in the process.

The rest is history....

English

2009-07-03T01:42:00.000-07:00

'MASTERPIECE' IN ENGLISH FROM TUN HUSSEIN ONN UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA. This is truly amazing!! English language at its best in Malaysia from 'Tun Hussien Onn University '. Does one laugh or cry? This can only be attributed to be the by product of years upon years of the NEP!! After reading this masterpiece, it is not surprising that Malaysian Universities did not make the grade in the rankings of universities. What a sorry state of affairs in the country's institutions of higher learning!! Was this a literal translation from the Malay language that it was originally written in?? God save Malaysia!!

25 August 2008

My Dear Friends I am sending you an advertorial that was published in the New Straits Times on 23 August 2008.

The advertorial is about the conferment of an honorary doctoral degree by the University on Raja Zarith Sofia, a member of the Perak State Royal Family.

Notwithstanding the contents of this advertorial, I am 'EXTREMELY IMPRESSED' with this 'Masterpiece' in English writing published by the University. It is something I have not read in 53 years. That is why I would like to share this 'Masterpiece' with all of you.

The style of writing is so 'Excellent' that all of us who have been schooled and trained in the traditional forms of the English language have to UNLEARN and RELEARN the language in order to be able to understand and appreciate the contents of this advertorial!

In the meantime, may God save our children and grandchildren from the clutches of tertiary educational institutions such as these.....

Regards,

2009-04-16T05:58:00.000-07:00

Pure Nonsense.

2009-04-15T05:32:00.000-07:00

2009-04-15T04:58:00.000-07:00

Siapa ini lah?!?!?!?!?

Who's that????!!!!! Hmmmmm I wonder LOLX XD

hell to u library!

2009-04-14T10:29:00.000-07:00

OMFG when I was about to go on hours of seriously productive revision... all dreams were shattered when te library decided to close at 4 pm well what the hell mate... Thanks for all the effort to put on my clothes and dragging my ass all the way to library.! Curses!!! anyway got some great understanding regarding some bloody electronic topic though, so it did ease a little bit of the grief LMAO!!! Back to my bloody smelly humid room where I really had a good time chatting with Leet Liang aka ROlo Khor ( Russian immoral immortal) Don't kill me if u ever come and found out I called u that?! LOL that chat really reignited my desire to draw swords with him in dota well hopefully in the same team haha... Wonder how rusty am I?! no doubt rusty like hell! HEll Yeah mate! Rusty it is.... guess got exposed to too much water and air! xD dun remind me of chemistry... Last paper for exam yippie ! no point revising that so early... Will eventually forget all when the day arrives so better to focus my mind on others first!and the final assignment is really making me to crack both my eyes and head! The complexity is beyond humans' understanding! Well mayb it seems so to me at least LOl . Champions League is UP! YAY!!! Auf Wiedersehen... Ich liebe dich!!!

2009-04-13T02:31:00.000-07:00

Look at all those bloody prefects... haha the only thing im greatful to them was they get the blame when the class was noisy xD Nuff said ! xD

2009-04-13T02:27:00.001-07:00

Foottie!

2009-04-12T02:37:00.001-07:00

How to end a weekend of not-so-thrilling football action with the 17 year old Federico 'Kiko' Macheda rescuing Manchester United's ass for the second successsive time in a row?! Haha. It ought to be a easy-cruising victory for Man Utd, considering the fact that they had been scoring goals for fun until after the KOP obliterated them at Old Trafford. Though winning the league will render that dreadful result ineffective in dethroning the champions however, the pain of that defeat would remain eventhough we manage to win the unprecedented quintuple though I doubt that'll happen. Fingers-crossed x. I found a funny thread posted by Liverpool fan at the bbc discussion forum and it really made my day reading how Liverpool fan would actually react to Kiko's goals to rescue Man Utd from draws in the last 2 games! Well, here it goes, he/she was apparently questioning the eligibility of Macheda as a Man Utd player. Well, something you might expect from a frustrated Liverpool fan after seeing your archrivals near to dropping 4 points before some unknown kid from Rome came up with 1st a spectacular curling shot to defeat Villa before placing himself in a rather lucky position to deflect Carrick's attempt at goal into the back of the net against Sunderland. Bad day for Liverpool fans I guess after Utd were so close to dropping points and handing the helm of the premiership to KOP. Then the Campions League on Wednesday; an extremely hard game to expect I guess as Porto had never lost a game on home soil to an english opposition. So, to progress to the semi-finals well we pretty much need to snatch a win or a high scoring draw of 3 goals and above which I doubt would happen. Playing Porto with the way we were playing against Sunderland would surely get our ass kicked no doubt. Hopefully Rio's return to the line-up (if he returns) would bring stability to the defence or not Utd are goners in Portugal. I might try to look for channels to watch that game live but the streaming sucks anyway xD. Nothing is better than ASTRO in Malaysia ! XD

Just a minor joke to share (heard from someone from a streaming channel)
"Which ship has never landed in Liverpool for a long long time"?
ANS: PREMIERSHIP it is! xD Cheers!

"Why vampire doesn't make good goalkeepers"?
ANS: They are afraid of crosses!

2009-04-11T04:42:00.001-07:00

Agence France-Presse - 4/11/2009 2:36 AM GMT
Malaysian man jailed for stealing panties: report
A Malaysian man was sentenced to 25 weeks in jail for stealing 80 pairs of women's panties, a media report said Saturday.
The Star newspaper said Zunaidi Ismail, a 34-year-old unemployed man from Borneo island, had admitted stealing the underwear from an apartment occupied by nursing students in three separate break-ins.
The underwear was worth a total of 280 ringgit (77 dollars), it said.
In mitigation, Zunaidi told the court he stole the underwear to resell at a secondhand clothing market

Why chinese shouldn't have english names!? - adapted from lim yik fong's mail xD

2009-04-11T04:33:00.000-07:00

Caller : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan (anyone)?

Operator : Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller : No, I want to speak to Annie Wan (anyone)!

Operator : You are talking to someone! Who is this?

Caller : I'm Sam Wan (Someone). And I need to talk to Annie Wan (anyone)! It's urgent.

Operator : I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone! But what's this urgent matter about?

Caller : Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan (anyone) that our brother Noel Wan (no one)has involved in an accident. Noel Wan (no one)got injured and now Noel Wan (no one) is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan (everyone) is on his way to the hospital.

Operator : Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgen t matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!

Caller : You are so rude! Who are you?

Operator : I'm Saw Lee (Sorry).

Caller : Yes! You should be sorry. Now give me your name!!! ============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ======

This is hilarious ...Why Chinese shouldn't have Christian names:

Anne Chang = Dirty (Mandarin)
Anne Chin = Keep Quiet (Mandarin)
Faye Chen = Dusty (Mandarin)
Carl Cheng = Buttock (Hokkien)
Monica Cheng = Touching your buttocks (Hokkien)
Lucy Leow = You are dead (Hokkien)
Jane Tan = Frying eggs (Mandarin)
Suzie Leow = Lose till death (Hokkien)
Henry Mah = Hate your mum (Mandarin)
Corrine Tai = Poor fellow (Hokkien)
Paul Chan = Bankrupt (Mandarin)
Nelson Tan = Bird laying eggs (Mandarin)
Leslie Tong = Rubbish Bin (Mandarin)
Carmen Teng = Leg hair long (Hokkien)
Connie Mah = Call your mother (Cantonese)
Danny See = Squeeze you to death (Hokkien)
Rosie Teng = Screws and nails (Hokkien)
Pete Tsai Nose droppings (Hokkien)
Macy Koh => Never die before (Cantonese)

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2009-04-11T04:20:00.001-07:00

Computer trouble! Thanks to Syd Dobbs for this.I was having trouble with my computer. So I called David, the 11 year old next door whose bedroom looks like Mission Control, and asked him to come over. David clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong?'He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.'I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, 'An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again.'David grinned. 'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?''No,' I replied.'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure itout.' So I wrote down: I D 1 0 TI used to like the little shit.

2009-04-11T02:53:00.000-07:00

A 1st grade school teacher had twenty-six students in her class... She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you. While reading, keep in mind that these are first-graders, 6-year-olds, because the last one is a classic!

1.
Don't change horses_____
until they stop running...
2.
Strike while the______
bug is close.
3.
It's always darkest before_____
Daylight Saving Time.
4.
Never underestimate the power of______
termites.
5.
You can lead a horse to water but_______
How?
6.
Don't bite the hand that ________
looks dirty.
7.
No news is ________
impossible
8.
A miss is as good as a ________
Mr.
9.
You can't teach an old dog new ________
Math
10.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll ________
stink in the morning.
11.
Love all, trust ________
Me.
12.
The pen is mightier than the ________
pigs.
13.
An idle mind is ________
the best way to relax.
14.
Where there's smoke there's________
pollution.
15.
Happy the bride who ________
gets all the presents.
16.
A penny saved is ________
not much.
17.
Two's company, three's ________
the Musketeers.
18.
Don't put off till tomorrow what ________
you put on to go to bed...
19.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and ________
You have to blow your nose.
20.
There are none so blind as ________
Stevie Wonder.
21.
Children should be seen and not ________
spanked or grounded.
22.
If at first you don't succeed ________
get new batteries.
23.
You get out of something only what you ________
See in the picture on the box
24.
When the blind lead the blind ________
get out of the way.
25.
A bird in the hand ________
is going to poop on you...
And the WINNER and last one!

26.
Better late than ________
Pregnant !

2009-04-10T07:21:00.001-07:00

Adapted from Wee's Blog ^^

2009-04-10T05:13:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-10T05:12:00.002-07:00

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2009-04-10T05:12:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-10T05:11:00.002-07:00

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2009-04-10T05:11:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-10T05:09:00.001-07:00

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