LETTER FOR AINROS

Disclaimer : This letter gonna be long, as it tells you a part of stories kept in my heart and a bundle of memories stored in my oTak. If you choose to read, iqra' till the end. TQ

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Ain,

Kite ingat lagi..
Waktu tu kite same-same nga amek SPM..
Kite dapat tau awak tak sihat bile da nak last paper tu..
Kite ingat awak migraine bese-bese je..
Kite ingat awak akan ok pastu..
Sebab tu la yang salu jadi kat awak..
Tapi tak kali tu..

Lepas abes paper Syariah, awak balik aritu jugak..
Ape yang tebayang kat otak kite sekarang, kite bubbye-bubbye kat gate asrama tu..
Awak macam ok..
Tapi, entahlah..

Pastu kite pegi KL, balik uma kakak kite..
Kite ade inteview tak lame lepas tu..
Lepas inteview tu, kite duduk uma kakak kite lagi..

Waktu kat uma kakak kite tu,
Kite ingat lagi, waktu tu malam..
Kite nga duduk bersandar kat dinding..
Kite belek-belek majalah..
Pastu masuk satu SMS..
Dari Mimy..
SMS tu bagi kejutan kat saye..

SMS tu kate,
Awak masuk ICU..
Panjang SMS tu, tapi kite tak ingat detail lain..
Menggigil kite..
Kawan kite masuk ICU..
Kite jerit panggil kakak kite..
Kite cite pasal SMS yang baru kite dapat tu kat kakak kite..
Kite becerite kat die ngan mate tebeliak..
Kite macam tak caye ape yang saye nga cite tu..
Yelah, awak macam sihat waktu kite bubbye-bubbye waktu awak nak balik tu..
Tup-tup dengar khabar, awak masuk ICU..

Keesokan arinye, kite pegi melawat awak..
Kite pegi dengan kakak kite..
Adik kite pon ade skali waktu tu..
Jemput Pekot, Chapeq ngan mak Chapeq kat Stesen Putra Kg. Baru..
Pastu same-same pegi hospital tu..

Bile kite da nak sampai wad ICU tu, pasaan cuak, risau, takut, sume becampur..
Bile da sampai, kite tengok ade kawan-kawan kite yang da sampai..
Pastu kitorang take turn nak melawat awak..
Kite takut sangat-sangat nak masuk wad tu, wak..
Pastu kite beranikan diri jugak..
Awak kawan kite..

Bile tengok awak tebaring, mate tetutop, badan tak begerak, kite takleh tahan..
Lagi-lagi bile tengok tiub sane-sini kat badan awak, kite sangat-sangat takleh tahan..
Kite menangis macam awak da tanak kawan kite..
Tangan kakak kite jadi kekuatan kite waktu tu..
Kite genggam tangan die kuat-kuat..
Kite takut kite jatuh..

Bile kua dari wad tu, kite still nangis..
Kakak kite marah kite..
Die cubit lengan kite..
Kuat..
Die kate kite tak patut nangis camtu..
Tapi kite takleh tahan, wak..
Tapi disebabkan kite takut kite kene cubit lagi, kite berenti nangis..

Waktu tu la kite kenal nenek awak, pakcik awak..
Pakcik awak cite sume bende yang jadi..
Kite sedih..
Tambahan pule mak ayah awak gi haji..

Sejak aritu, ospital tu jadi tempat yang wajib kite pegi dlm sehari..
Kejap pun jadilah, yang penting ati kite lega sikit..

Tak lame lepas tu kite dapat dengar awak da sedar..
Alhamdulillah..
Pastu ade skali tu kite pegi KL Sentral..
Kite belikan awak kad 'Get well soon' kat Nile Bookstore tu..
Awak mesti tau kan?
Dalam kad tu ade gelang jugak..
Comel, kite suke..

Pastu next time nye kite pegi lawat awak, tengok awak da bukak mate, kite hepi..
Hehehe..
Waktu tu Sabb ade dengan kite..
Sabb tanye awak, awak kenal die tak..
Awak macam geleng, macam angguk-angguk..
Tapi dari pandangan awak, kite tau, awak tak kenal sape-sape pun keliling awak..
Pastu Sabb tanye lagi, 'Ain nak pakai tak gelang ni?'
Sabb tunjukkan gelang yg ade ngan kad tu..
Awak angguk dengan mate yang tekebil-kebil..
Tu kite pasti..
Hehehe..

Pastu kite biakan kad tu dekat atas meje kat katil awak tu..
Kite tinggalkan note, supaye orang lain letak signature diorang dlm kad tu jugak..
Beberape ari lepas tu kite datang lagi..
Kali ni Cikgu Reza ade ngan kite..
Kite tengok dalam kad tu, banyak orang da sign..
Ramai orang sayang awak, Ain..
Dan kite tak lupe untuk menyuruh Cikgu Reza menunjukkan sayang die kat awak jugak!
Hehehe..

Tak lame pastu kite balik JB..
Raya Haji pulak datang..
Dengar dari kawan-kawan yang awak da leh msg2 kitorg, kite msg awak raya tu..
Awak nak tau awak reply ape?
'Ni sape ni?'
Nak gugur jantung kite dibuat awak!
Napela dalam banyak-banyak name, neuron otak awak gagal mengesan name kite? :(
Pastu kite cakap la yang kite ni Fadhilah Salleh..
Pastu awak cakap 'oo..' n ape lagi, kite tak ingat..
Ape yang pasti, awak cakap yang awak bukan tak kenal kite, tapi enset awak tu da reformatted sbb makcik awak nak dapatkan no. contact kami yang kawan-kawan awak ni..
(Kantoi awak ade gune paswed kat fon awak tu sampai makcik awak kene reformat fon tu!)
Dan disebabkan itu la name kite tu takde dlm fon awak..
Huhu..
Lega ati kite..

Tapi kite sedih sikit, awak tak ingat kenangan kite same-same waktu SPM tu..
Sebab waktu SPM tu ade bende paling bemakne jadi dalam idop kite..
Kakak-kakak kite datang skola kite untuk celebrate birthday kite..
Itula kali petame kite bepeluang celebrate birthday kite dengan kawan-kawan kat keliling kite, setelah 12 taon tak menyambut birthday..

Kite celebrate birthday kite tu kat bilik study..
Kawan-kawan sume ade..
Hehe.. N awak nak tau sth?
Awak datang waktu tu dengan berambut style Bob Marley!










You rock!
Kakak-kakak kite tegelak je tengok awak!
Hehehehe!
Pastu awak tak letih layan kerenah anak sedare kite..
Si Tisya tu..
Kite ade satu gamba awak ngan Tisya waktu birthday kite tu..
Comel.. hehehe..

Lagi satu bende yang awak tak ingat, awak ade bagi kite birthday card pade taon 2006 tu..
Yang mane, kad tu adela untuk birthday kite pade 2005..
Awak bagi keychain yang ade teddy bear jugak..
Awak gantung kat pintu loker kite..
Kite tekejut sebab kite dapat birthday card pade bulan Mac 2006 untuk birthday kite yang jatuh pade November 2005..
Huhu..
Ni la adiahnye..

Key chain kat pale bear tu da ilang, adik Najat yang buat. Huhu

Betul ape yang kucing tu cakap. Huhuhu. Tapi takpe Ain, kite maafkan awak!

Tapi kucing tu cakap bende tu 'ugly incident'! Kite pon cakapla kat die, 'It's not an UGLY incident when you are prepared to sleep, but then you find a present hanging on your locker!'

******

Untuk sesape yang tak mengenali, Ain yang dimaksudkan adela yang si tengah tu. Gambar diambil waktu birthday beliao 3 orang ni. Kepade Ayu Ain Leha, kite sayang awak awak awak sangat-sangat! Dan jugak untuk kawan-kawan yang kat lua tu! :)

Visit from Prof Mariaudeau

For the last few days, I've been logging in to my blogger account, clicking on the NEW POST button, and when the blank column appeared, I stared for a while, and simply pushed the X button for the tab. I just didn't know what to write!

Since I'd just got the pics from Mayo, now I can write la. Hihihi.

Last Sunday we had a visit from Prof Mariaudeau of Université de Bourgogne. He was actually here for a visit to UTP, and not us the Robocon members. But since he is also a friend of Dr Naufal's, he was invited to give us a talk on the special masters course offered by his university. Here goes the details on the programe:

1) Named Masters in Computer Vision and Robotics (VIBOT).
2) A collaboration between the Universitat de Girona (Spain), the Université de Bourgogne (France), Heriot Watt University (Scotland), where the collaboration is named Erasmus Mundus (click on the link to view the list of programmes offered).
3) A two-year programme, with each semester you'll be in DIFFERENT country and of course DIFFERENT university. For the final semester, you'll be doing your internship.

Listening to his talk made me grateful to be in Robocon Team cause there's no other way that I can see the beauty of robotics and also for having the chance to see the opportunity ahead. I've always been worrying and thinking of my Final Year Project as I wanna do something that really contributes to my industry (ayat mcm dlm CV je). Something new and an eye-opener. So, I'd think about think it, and I already have it written in my organizer (thanx to ESU Petronas) ;) It's simply a combination of my interests; robotics and petroleum engineering. So, can you read my mind? ;)

This was during the night, in the Robolab. Had a good day that day, for we laughed a lot on his jokes. Lucky for the boys, they even spent the rest of the night watching MU-Arsenal match at kedai mamak! If I were one of the boys and a fan of Arsenal, I'd rather support MU that night for he got no other MU supporters on that night! :p

Fridge Facts and Letter for Mom

Long time no updates, so here I come with some facts and knowledge for this post. Why fridge? Here are the reasons:

1) We own at least one fridge at home.
2) Fridge releases CO₂ and SO₂, which each causes climate change and acidic rain.
3) We pay a big amount for a fridge to run a year.
4) I hate thermodynamics cause it speaks a language that I find hard to understand. But when it comes to fridge, I gradually become fond of the subject (though it's late. study week maaa)

So this post will help you out there, despite the facts that you're afford to pay the bill, staying far away from the city or even living your whole life convinced that you've been breathing fresh air every morning and sleep sound at the night. The REAL facts are here:

1) You're pocket is full to pay the bill. But the heat generated from the electrical appliances you own can NEVER BE DESTROYED. Even your money can't. The fact is, the more you pay on your bill, the more you violate the earth.
2) While you're breathing fresh air, or even sleeping soundly, there's a part in the globe that is suffering because of your beloved refrigerator that keeps your favorite Haagen Dazs cold. And it is the atmosphere. The ozone. Scientifically O₃.

With this, bear in mind that there is still something that you can do for the environment while you're owning a fridge. The amount of energy consumed by the fridge can be minimized by practicing conservation measures below:

1) Open the refrigerator door as FEWEST times possible for the SHORTEST duration possible.
Each time the door is opened, the cool air inside is replaced by the warmer air outside; which of course needs to be cooled. The more often you open the door, the more your refrigerator works. The more the refrigerator works, the more energy it consumes. The more energy it consumes, the bigger the number appears in your bill. The bigger the number, the bigger you pay!

2) Cool the hot foods to room temperature before putting them into the refrigerator.
Reasons are as in 1). This should tell you (and myself) to stop putting your boiling-hot drinks in the fridge when your ice trays are empty. Worse, for the moms out there who have a habit of moving a hot pan from the oven directly, I advise you to stop your habit IMMEDIATELY. Your husband is working hard to pay for the house, but unluckily he never knew that he's actually paying for a refrigerator to work more!

3) Clean the condenser coils located behind or beneath the refrigerator.
The dust that collect on the coils acts as insulation that slows down heat dissipating from the coils. Cleaning the coils will improve cooling ability of the fridge and reduce power consumption by a few percent.

4) Check the door gasket for air leaks.
This can be done by placing a flashlight into the refrigerator, turning off the kitchen lights and looking for any light leaks. If you can find any leaks, get the door gaskets repaired immediately. Or else your money will flow through this leaks in your monthly bill. Believe me!

5) Avoid unnecessarily low temperature settings.
The recommended temperatures for freezers and refrigerators are -18°C and 3°C, respectively. Keeping temperatures 6°C below the recommended levels can increase power consumption by 25 percent.

6) Avoid excessive ice build-up on the interior surfaces of the evaporator.
The ice layer acts as insulation and slows down heat transfer from freezer section to the refrigerant, which will cause your freezer to work more.

7) Use the power-saver switch wisely.
You should know how this power-saver switch works. It actually controls the heating coils and prevent condensation on the outside of the surfaces in humid environment. When you turn the switch on, the low-wattage heaters will raise the temperature of the outer surfaces to prevent the formation of water droplets and thus avoid your kitchen floor from wet. I suggest that we people in Malaysia should not turn this power-saver on lah as we're living in a hot climate lah. Or else, we're actually paying for the fridge to heat our home! (unless that is what you want)

Done with the facts, so here's something from the reference book that I'd like to quote from

"...Replacing a 25-year-old, 0.5m3 refrigerator with a new energy-efficient model will save over 1000kWh of electricity per year. For the environment, this means a reduction over 1 ton of CO₂ and over 10kg of SO₂..."

At home, my mom owns an old refrigerator, which she's always proud of for keeping it for what, 20 years? Whenever she's using something that has the same age as her daughter and one of us is around, she would say this:

" Dah bepuloh taoon da mak gune bende ni. Sejak Tuut kecik lagi"
Translation: "I've been using this for a looong time. Since Tuut was kid." And the Tuut would be any of us. Most commonly, Sis Hanim la.

So here I'd like to write a letter to my beloved mom, Puan Zainon.

Mak,

Padanla bilik Nor yang berekedudukan dekat dengan dapur tu panas je selalu.. Rupenye peti sejuk National mak yang berpangkat kakak kpd Nor tu yang wat bilik Nor tak ubah macam bilik sauna.. Kalau mak masuk bilik Nor, mak komen, bilik Nor panas.. Nor sedar, sebab tu la mak selalu baring kat lantai kalo mak masuk bilik Nor kan? Tapi mak tahu tak, peti hijau mak tu jahat, mak.. Die keluarkan 1 tan karbon dioksida dan 10 kg sulfur dioksida setaon mak.. 1 tan karbon dioksida tu la yang masuk bilik Nor agaknye.. Tu yang wat bilik Nor tu jadi panas semacam je mak..

Mak,

Nor kekadang terfikir jugak.. Camne leh umah kite tu boleh ade 3 peti sejuk plus 1 freezer.. Umah kite tu sekarang ade 4 orang je.. Tapi makanan dalam fridge tu sentiase penuh. Kadang2 bile Nor balik, tolong mak kat dapur (walaupun menyibuk je), bile mak mintak tolong Nor amek barang dalam fridge, Nor kene check sampai 3 peti sejuk, baru jumpe barang tu.. Isk3.. Nor bukan mengeluh, mak.. Cume kite ade care yang dapat menjimatkan mase untuk memasak..

Mak,

Ape kate, drpd umah kite ade 3 fridge dan 1 freezer, kite tolak sume fridge kat kedai barang letrik, pastu beli fridge yang energy-efficient bak kate buku Nor.. Mak oleh beli fridge yang ade LCD screen tu skali.. Mak leh tengok resepi masak online, dengar lagu.. Mak sure suke camni kan? Kalo mak tak wat camni mak, bil letrik yang mak bayar bulan2 untuk sume fridge tu bersamaan dgn mak pasang air-cond kat bilik Nor.. Kalo ade air-cond kat bilik Nor, bile mak penat memasak, mak boleh masuk bilik Nor sejukkan badan.. Ye tak?

Nor harap mak terimalah cadangan Nor ni.. Nor bukan ape, kesian tengok mak bayar bil banyak2 tiap bulan..

P/S : I Love You..

Waktu aku menulis surat ni, aku da terbayang surat mak aku camne bunyinye. Camni:

Nor,

Mak kesian sebenarnye tengok Nor kepanasan dalam bilik tu.. Tapi inilah pandangan mak.. Harap Nor tak berkecil hati dengan ape yang bakal mak cakapkan ni..

Nor,

Ape ko lupe ke yang peti2 sejuk tu, satu mak pakai sejak Kak Nim ko kecik, satu abah belikan sebab mak nak jugak rase gune peti sejuk baru, satu lagi Kak Ida ko punye yang die angkut dari rumah sewa yang die duduk dulu. Freezer tu, kan Auntie Rahil yang bagi.. Ape ko dah lupe? Lagi satu, ape ko dah lupe mak ko ni menjage kanak2 kat umah ni? Da pangkat sekolah da umah kite ni nak oi, boleh pulak ko cakap umah ni ade 4 orang je?

Yang pasal pasang air-cond kat bilik ko tu, mak tak setuju. Ko yang bengap, belaja tinggi2, tapi konsep air-cond pon ko tak paham betol2. Kalo ko tak tau, bilik ko tu panas sebab ko tak pernah bukak tingkap bilik ko tu, Air-cond berfungsi macam tu la, udara panas keluar. Mak konpem, kalo ko bukak tingkap bilik ko pasni, sejuk je bilik ko tu..

Nor,

Janganla salahkan peti sejuk tu sebab jadi sebab bil letrik kite jadi mahal.. Ko tu pon ape kurangnye, ko tak bukak tingkap siang2 ari, suke ati ko je bukak lampu bilik ko 24 jam. Waktu tidur bukak lampu, pastu bukak lagu sampaikan jiran sebelah pun boleh terbangun!

Setakat ni je lah surat mak kali ni. Mak nak masak ni. Budak2 dah lapa!

P/S : Mak sayang ko jugak!

Any solution?