Budding Engineers

Yu nid ze zkillz to be engineerz. Thus, ECT111, or Engineering skills class appears. This is one of the classes I like, mostly 'cause its all practical, and no theory work :).

The hardest was 'Gegas', where I had to cut a piece of metal with a saw. I was difficult to cut a straight line down... And it took me 3 hours to just finish a small piece of metal... So no pictures. Marks come 1st before pictures.

I did Grinding about 2 weeks ago. It was a process to finish off the works of Milling and Lette. The metal will be polished till its almost similar to mirror texture.

Its pretty fun. Though it needs a LOT of patience to do all four sides of the metal. The maximum tolerance this machine can cut is only 0.02mm, and I had to cut a total of 1mm for each side. Good thing is, the result came out smoothly.

Next, wiring. Did this last week and this week. There are two types of wiring, the PVC wiring and Metal wiring. No, not metal/PVC wires, but pipes.
Thats PVC wiring. 1st things 1st, we had to cut the PVC into 10 and 20 inches, and bend the 20 inch pipe at 90 degrees at the midpoint. Whats left is basically screw everything onto the bay and insert wires into it. we had to make 2 way switches and a main switch for light bulbs. I had a technical error my 1st try, but it was fixed :)

Thats my partner for wiring project. Behind us is the metal wiring. Its much more fun because you get to play with more equipments, haha. Its basically the same as the PVC wiring, but the bending process requires the Bending Machine and we had to make loops at edges to lock things in with a thingamagic which its name I forget :P
Thats the end result of the project. It may not be perfect, but I'm happy it turned out well :). Everything works perfectly, and no short circuit happened.

Bay 7/8 members. We rocked the project!

Next I'll be doing OrCad. Have no idea how it is, but I'll just pray things will go smoothly. Man, I'm bored right now...

Signed off,

Kelvin.

Back to NON-Civilization...

Been living in Penang for 20 years now, got kinda used to the life as a city kid. Now that I've been kicked to Perlis, things have changed, LOTS!

I rarely took the bus in Penang, but over here, I take the bus everyday. Without the buses, you can't survive here. With the bus, it takes more than 30 minutes just to reach my class. Imagine walking there...

Now to my dorm.

That is my room. And yes, thats it. Well, not all of it. Theres 2 lockers on my right which I can't get to fit into the picture. Now thats all of it. Theres a common room, or like a living room outside where all the desks are located. Its shared with 7 people, including me.

Don't even get me started on the toilet. I would take a picture, but I'm afraid my camera will rot from the condition it is in. Also, spiders with REAAAALLLY long legs are found everywhere. My room, toilet, outside, you name it. I'd kill them, but they help me eat mosquitoes xD. Never had any mosquito problems so far. They stay still so I don't really care about them.

Thats my uni version of Each-A-Cup. Ice-blended Honey Peach with Pearls and Yogurt Jelly Balls. After all the disaster foods I've been having all this while in Perlis, this drink tasted like drops of heaven to me. REALLLY amazing.

Its 4 more years of this hellhole. I just pray that my hostel next year ain't gonna be as bad as this one. Please give me the strength to go through this....

Signed off,

Kelvin.

Biomedical Electronic Engineering

As of 4th September 2011, I'll be studying this course in UniMAP. Things had been going smoothly for about 1+1/2 months now, so, fingers crossed for everything else to run smoothly :)

Seniors have been REALLY nice here, especially those in my course. Extremely helpful. The chinese community in my course is very small, so they really take care of each other very well. Heck, I've even been assigned to a senior to be taken care of. Although I never really contacted her because its not that nice to disturb her especially she's a lot more busy than I am, haha.

Coursemates... Pretty good :) One thing surprised me is the communication here. Steping into UniMAP and knowing me, I was pretty sure I am gonna be secluded, creating my own island in my class. Well, thats not the case here.

One thing I gotta say though, I find it VERY HARD to survive here as a Chinese without basic Mandarin... Good thing I learned a thing or two back at home. Thanks Dad.

One thing I don't really like about my course is the location of my Engineering Center. Its located roughly 35~45 minutes of travel WITH bus from my hostel. What the heck? If I miss the bus, bye bye lessons. Seriously, what the hell are the admins thinking?

That pretty much concluded everything. I'm just glad I got the course I wanted. PRAYS it will bloom in M'sia once i graduate...

Signed off,
Kelvin.

Its been months...

... since I posted anything in this blog. Well, I guess its high time to revive it. Sorry peeps XP

Signed off,
Kelvin.