Minggu Awal Persekolahan

Hai, diam tak diam ubi berisi boleh goreng kunyit. Esok hari Rabu, hari ini hari Selasa. Esok lusa siapa yang tahu.

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Sem ni, subjek2 yang diambil sangatlah durhh. Awal2 kelas banyak belajar derivation yang menyakitkan saraf2 tunjang bersama saraf otak. Tapi even sakit2 otak pun aku mampu je menguap dalam klas huaarhhhh. Itu adalah kesan daripada kesakitan otak yang terlampau.

Well Test Analysis
Reservoir Modeling & Simulation
Facilities Engineering
Intro to Management
Engineering Economics & Entrepreneurship
Engineering Team Project

Sangatlah kedewasaan bunyinya. Saya tak sangka saya sudah dewasa dan perlu belajar smeua benda ni. Belajar untuk mencari kerja. Belajar untuk mendapatkan ilmu2; yang mana saya tak sangka inilah tahap ilmu yang saye perlu dapatkan sekarang. Fadhilah, awak dah besar.

Berbalik kepada aku-kau.

Dalam masa yang sama, aku bizi dengan perkara2 berikut:

- V5 Goes Green -
Dulu waktu mula2 masuk V5SR waktu sem Jan 08 dulu, aku pernah berangan nak buat kempen hijau dalam V5 ni. Hoho. Tak sangka aku ni berfikiran hijau ke? Ya, otakku hijau. Aku sangatlah particular dalam hal2 alam semesta ni. Tapi sekarang ni dah ada kuasa sikit dalam V5SR, aku berlagak berkuasa lahaha. So, V5 Goes Green ni berada di bawah naungan aku. Kempen ni akan berlangsung di V5 selama 2 bulan. Antara aktiviti yang bakal diadakan adalah:

1) Kempen kitar semula dan jimat elektrik
Sebab - aku perasan tahap kesedaran student2 kat sini tentang kepentingan kitar semula sangatlah kurang. Dan, melihatkan lampu koridor dinyalakan sesuka hati di siang hari. Durhh, somebody please care! You're heating the globe!

2) Aktiviti gotong-royong
Penjelasan - aktiviti ini diadakan dengan kerjasama pihak Majlis Perbandaran Perak Tengah. Lokasi sekitar Bandar Sri Iskandar. Penduduk setempat dan ahli JKK turut terlibat. Boleh percaya ke ni idea aku? Oh my god! Reason? Saje nak berbakti kat tempat yang ditumpangi~

3) Persembahan teater hijau
Untuk ni, kami jemput Tronoh Theatre Shop untuk berlakon.

4) Trip ke Gua Tempurung
Plan asalnya nak pergi Tasik kenyir, tapi fellow reject sebab jauh sangat. Wuwu

5) Kutip derma
Sumbangan yang dikumpul akan disalurkan kepada Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam (itu plan kami setakat ni. Tapi sedang menghadapi masalah teknikal). Sumbangan akan dikutip melalui jualan tiket teater dan sumbangan pihak2 yang mahu menderma.

6) Pelancaran V5 Green Day
Ya, Greenday band sedap tu. Pelancaran V5 Green Day ini bertujuan mengharamkan penggunaan bekas makanan dan plastik di kafe2 dan di mini market V5. Tujuannya, untuk mengurangkan penghasilan sampah setiap hari di dalam tong sampah di setiap rumah. Ini adalah kerana tinjauan saya mendapati hampir keseluruhan isi tong sampah terdiri dari bungkusan2 makanan. Ini sangatlah tidak elok walaupun bekas makanan itu berasal dari bahan organik.

Itulah serba sedikit tentang V5 Goes Green. Kalau rajin silalah lawati blog V5GG yang masih dalam proses pembikinan lagi.

http://v5goesgreen.blogspot.com/

Oh ya, lupa mahu cakap. Event ni merupakan kolaborasi antara Village 5 Student Representative dan International Student Council di UTP ini.

- Engineering Team Project -
Subjek yang wajib diambil sem ni. Setiap kumpulan terdiri daripada 5-6 orang pelajar dari pelabagai jurusan kejuruteraan. Setakat ni tajuk projek belum ditetapkan lagi.

- Robocon 2010 -
Memandangkan pertandingan bulan 6 nanti, kami berehat dari membuat robot sebentar. Tema Robocon kali ni : RoboPharaohs Build Pyramids (sila klik untuk maklumat lanjut tentang pertandingan ni)

OK tu je lah update kali ni, semoga updates ini cukup! Mengapa saya berbahasa melayu baku? Ini adalah kerana saya bangga saya ada bahasa sendiri!

Seorang rakan meghulurkan mercun roket padaku

dan berkata, 'ini bunga api'. Saya sebagai budak yang baik, tak pernah main mercun dan tak tahu rupa2 dan jenis2 mercun, berkata 'oh' . Saya nyaris2 mahu ambil 'bunga api' itu untuk dibakar, rupa2nya bende tu mercun roket! Ciss. Nasib baik ade orang yang berhati mulia bagitau aku hal sebenar. Kalau tak parah la aku pegang mercun roket tu macam main bunga api! Kesimpulannya, ilmu tentang mercun2 itu penting!

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Hai. Saya Fado. Sabtu lepas, Perwakilan Pelajar Kampung 5 ade event, khas untuk student sini yang menyambut Dipabali. Sengaje aku wat2 salah eje, serik kisah orang jumpe blog aku ni bile main search2. Hish.

Banyak bende yang dikesalkan berlaku sepanjang event ni. Tapi kenangan manis ade jugak, yaitu aku berjaye wat rekod 'miting paling lame yang pernah dihadiri' dengan catatan 4 jam 40 minit. Haa. Sanggup ke tak korang nak gi miting tu? Dari pukul 11pm sampaila 340am. Bontot pun krem je duduk lelame camtu. Otak melayang da sampai Afrika Selatan da. Mulut aku menguap tak tau bape juta kali. Tang memalukan, walopon aku bukanla Hicom event tu, tapi malam tu aku duduk sebelah Project Director event tu. Sume orang nampak ape aku buat. Tapi pedulik ape aku, menguap tetap menguap!

Ni kali pertame aku bekerje dengan komiti yang majoritinya adela non-malays. Heh. Kagum aku, diorang jual tiket sampai ke Ipoh nun. Sedangkan aku, disuruh jual tiket pintu ke pintu pun da merengek. Pemalas. Lagi la dulu disuruh buat keje ketuk2 pintu waktu 1st year. Seganlah nak ketuk pintu bilik orang.. orang2 kat V5 ni da la ramai budak2 final year. Gile ape nak promot bende kat diorang? Tapi dari situla aku kutip self-confidence. Ecece. Tapi betul lah. Aku dulu rase aku malu je bile tengok muke2 yang aku tak kenal. Tapi sebab buat keje ketuk2 pintu tu la aku ade self-confidence. (Mekaseh la buat komiti kampung 5 dulu yang kutip aku jadi block manager)

Tapi kami2 komiti kampung 5 menghadapi masalah jualan tiket disebabkan masalah dalaman. When we did the direct ticket selling, everyone was like, 'eh, bia betul budak ni. Semangat gile nak celebrate dipabali. Da la melayu'. But hey, this is not celebrating. We're only discovering the richness of arts that we have in Malaysia. Where else could you find everything there? Malaysia lah!

Dan, ni jugakla kali pertame aku buat kolam.. ala, bende yang gune beras warne warni tu lah. Kitorang buat dalam chan hall, depan seats untuk VIP. Seronoklah jugak.. Yelah, dulu aku sekolah sume malay. Manelah ade can nak buat bende ni sume..

Wat bende ni memerlukan semangat dan jiwa yang kental. Eceh

A little bit close-up. Bentuk bunga. Nampak ke?

Bunga apit lencana sekolah. Da nak siap dah! Yeyeah!

Dan di malam kemuncak itu..



Tadaaaa!

Bertukar!

Coursemates ie. the event committees.

Alahaiii sumenye comel lote. Aku je ha yang wat gamba tak balance.

Joget Bollywood dari bintang-D. One of the performing groups kat sekolah ni. Joget2 was not everything on that night. We had gamelan, chinese orchestra, n nyanyi2. Konsep 1Malaysia lah konon.

Dan kemudian, makan2 kat lua chancellor hall itu.

Aku tak makan abes. Perut tanak makan.

This event was actually a platform gathering the arts of the indian community and overall, this event was a great success. Congratz to all of the kumpulan orkestra india sekolah ni, for their hardwork throughout this event. They managed to make us the non-indians amazed by the performances. Sangat fantastiklah joget2 itu semua! Tahniah semua! Dan trima kasih for my coursemates that have contributed their time for this collaborated event. Mekasih kawan2! =)

Next event : Raya Dinner, coming up next week.

Futsal Fiesta for Charity

18, 21 & 22 February : I never thought that these 3 days were gonna be hectic for us the V5SR members. We prepared the paperwork for 2 days and set everything for the event just in 4 days. We hurried here and there to get the approval for our event, and when we're rejected for something, we need to hurry lagi to make our request approved. Senang cakap there were so many things that we went through termasuklah sakit hati, sakit kepala dan tekanan perasaan.

*Kalau dikenang kali pertama meeting dengan SRM n MPP, memang aku rasa nak gigit-gigit kertas je. But things had change ;)

This event was actually planned by V5SR to launch our new basketball and futsal court in V5. But Sekretariat Rakan Muda of UTP and MPPUTP pun nak buat benda yang sama waktu tu. We had no choice but to collaborate with them and as a result, the student bodies that finally collaborate in this event were:

1) Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar UTP (MPP)
2) Village 5 Student Representive (V5SR)
2) Sekretariat Rakan Muda UTP (SRM)
3) Robocon UTP
5) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student Society (E3SS)

Banyak kan? Tapi apa yang menyedapkan hati adalah we had a big number of participating teams registered for the fursal tournament. We had 42 teams coming from different residential college, countries and races. We sweat bagai orang gila siang malam ensuring a number of 106 games conducted properly in just 2 days! Ini membawa makna bahawa Futsal Fiesta for Charity had become the most successful sports tournament ever held in UTP and as a part of the organizing committee, I felt very proud of the sukses dan sukses! Tambahan pula, kami turut berjaya mengumpul kutipan untuk didermakan kpd Aman Palestin =)

Let's have a look at the pics! ;)

18 Feb : Our Rector, launching the basketball court.

The early birds are playing in the clouds!

Heroes of the Event : SRM.

Hotties of the Event : V5SR. Always hot! Lagi-lagi orang yang pegang tray tu! ;p

Pinky of the Event : Fad dan Shiha kaki pink! Sangat suke suruh orang lain pakai baju pink! ;p

Waktu launching je tak pakai baju pink. Ngengenge. We spared the Merah yang Jambu for the tournament! ;)

This is our new court. Thanx to UTP for this great gift! =)

Saya mewakili V5SR ingin mengucapkan berbanyak terima kasih pada smua komiti Futsal Fiesta for Charity ni. Korang mmg da bomb! ;0

Credits to Syaza, Firin, Pundak n Jaa for the pics ;)

V5 Raya Fiesta: Raya Dinner

So here's the story of our Raya Dinner. It was held at Undercroft in Chancellor Complex. Our committee had worked very hard for this dinner. Preparing paperwork, seeking for sponsors, doing roadshows etc just for this very night. And what I can say is: our work did pay. We had fun last night and the most important is: the event ran smoothly just as what we had planned.

I was in purple that night and as I entered the hall, I was quite shocked when I saw there were so many people attending the dinner were in purple too! When Zai offered me to wear her purple baju, I thought that would be the best as purple is rarely to be seen. But that was OK somehow, as we were called Lucky Purple as there were many 'purple's that won the lucky draws ;)

Here's how the night went yesterday:

Registering for the night.

The committees were waiting for the VIPs. It was an awkward feeling when you used to sit in a meeting with the committees around you wearing lousy shirt and jeans but suddenly you see them in baju melayu. Did they feel the same way too?

Dr Naufal giving a speech while my stomach was singing Hungry song.

Dr Naufal officiating the night with the help of one of the robots from Robocon. A funny incident happened when the robot went off before Dr Naufal had the chance to take the lemang carried by the robot. Dr Naufal got panicked then, and so did the others on the stage :D

Then we had 3 performances by the invited kids from a nearby orphanage, Oliver of UTP and a band, also from UTP. I didn't know why, but I was so touched seeing the faces of the kids. I wondered how do they live without their beloved ones. I nearly cried, thanking to Allah as I still have my Mak and Abah. The top 2 person in my life. Thank you Allah :)

Hm. We also had some awards for the best dressed male and female, and a special award of Romeo & Juliet. We intended the Romeo & Juliet Award to be given to the couple that wears of course la the same tone colour of baju, the most romantic and bla bla bla. But we the committee finally agreed on this male-male couple from Chad that wore their white traditional suit. They were just like a twin; the only difference was that their faces weren't really alike. But the thing is, I felt pity to them as they got a couple of TEDDY-TIGERs for the award (and I'm not really sure whether to laugh or be sad for this feeling. Haha) As the dinner ended I took a chance to take some pictures with them ;)

They looked cute holding the TEDDY-TIGER in their hands :p

Mr Irwanshah, one of the male fellows in V5. He looked so cute with that TEDDY-TIGER :p (You won't believe me when I say that the childish face at the center of this pic is owned by an executive of the UTP Resource Center)

Ngehehe. Mr Irwanshah and Dr Naufal (both are V5 fellows)

HPE stands for Happy Petroleum Engineers! :)

The night walked, and the girls got crazy-crazy lala =)

P/S : The Secretary wants to thank everyone in the committee for struggling hard to make this event possible :)

V5 Raya Fiesta: Family Day

V5 Raya Fiesta, which is organised by V5 Student Representative, runs for a week, starting 12-18 October 2008. We had roadshow during the weekdays. It was a tiring week; though you only have to sit and stare at the people walking in front of you, waiting them to sign up in the activities that you organize. We also did door-to-door promotion in V5, promoting them the V5 Family Day and V5 Raya Dinner. The feedback was quite positive and I'm very sure bout this: they are proud of having an active student representative organization in their residential college :)

Saturday, Oct 18
We had Family Day during the day and Raya Dinner at night. The Family Day was all about having fun in our traditional games- Galah Panjang, Main Guli, Boling Kelapa Tua and Anyam Ketupat. We even had a Mini Futsal, which was a 3 on 3 game. There were 3 teams registered for Galah Panjang but unluckily 2 of the teams had a test on that day so they couldn't play la. 1 team left, and some of the committees had to be their opponent (and I was one of them). I really had fun playing with them. It's like reminiscing all of my old memories with my 2 chubby neighbours 2 naughty neighbours and lots more.

Then we had Boling Kelapa Tua:

Mineral bottles filled with water were used as the bowling pins.

Then we had Main Guli:

Guli Susu (shall I call it Milk Marble?) was used.

Then, Anyam Ketupat:

People, please believe me when I say that most of our Anyam Ketupat contestants are guys ;)

And here, I have some behind-the-scene pictures ;)


Dr Naufal, the most sporting advisor on earth (in green) showing the skills on how to be a Jaguh Gasing to a foreign student from Turkmenistan.

And I can't deny the fact that he's really the Jaguh ;)

Seems satisfied huh doc? Well you should meet my moyangs then. See if they'll call you Jaguh or not :p

And we end our day by prize giving. The participants were very happy with their BIG hamper, and I envied them :(

Mathronicamp: I'm Teacher-blooded

How does it feel being a teacher? Well for me, as most of family are teachers, this is not something new. And on last Saturday, I got the chance to be one :) It was the Mathronicamp, a one day course organized by UTP Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student Society (E3SS), in collaboration with UTP Robocon Team. It's Najib who offered me the chance, as he was the one who initially in charge to be one of the representatives from Robocon Team but luckily, he got something to do on the same day, so he passed me the offer :) In this Mathronicamp we had to teach the Standard 5 students from SK Raban, a total of 70 plus students. Maths and teacher, is a great combination to make feel eager to join!

My day on that Saturday started at 630am (this is really rare to me.ngehe), rushing to reach Jehan's at V4 before 700am. I texted her as I start walking to V4 and she replied that she was not ready yet. When I reached her room, she was done with baju but not tudung and she honestly told me that: Aku bangun bile ko msg aku. Kalo ko tak msg, habis.

Ahaha. But never mind la. Jehan kencang. Ehe. We then got into the car, ready to gather with others at the V4 parking area. We waited for the other 2 boys from Robocon, and only then Jehan remembered that she forgot to bring along our Robocon corporate shirt. Lalala~ As she had to wait for the other boys, I volunteered myself to walk and get the shirts. Huhu. Done with the shirt-matter, we hurried to RoboLab as we had to take the batteries for the robot and some other thing. I did bring the lab key with me, but UNLUCKILY somebody had changed the padlock, and I only have one key with me! Pity to us, and pity to those that we had to wake them up, just to get the key. We had to wake up 3 guys on that weekend, and this is enough to make me feel guilty. But what can I say kan. That was the only way that we could do. Huhu. It's quite a long story for this key-matter so I'd like to stop it here.

It took us more than two hours to reach SK Raban, which is in Kuala Kangsar. We arrived the school somewhere around 1030am. Jehan and his boyfriend Shah were assigned to Group 9, while Nazrin and me were assigned to Group 10. Nazrin and me brought our 4 'kids' to another classroom. Then we got know each other, and then started working on their exercises together. The kids were quite shy-shy cat at the first time and it took me nearly an hour just to make them feel easy with me. I acted as usual, like a clown. Making stupid jokes and it gave me a relief when the laughed seikhlas hati. Ahaha. I really enjoyed teaching them. It was a great feeling being in front of them, writing on the whiteboard, trying to make them understand. I taught them just like my father did when he taught me during my childhood. Translating the sentences word by word just to make sure that I understand the question. I applied it and it worked well to them. It's not that hard to teach them; they can read english well but the only problem was that they couldn't translate the words well.

I had a problem teaching them the topic on Time. One of the kids could not even remember the month. This IS a serious problem. I even had problem making them understand using fist:


I tried hard to make them remember of how many days are there in a month. I told them this: "Kalo kite stop kat Tinggi, bulan tu ade 31 hari. Kalo Rendah, ade 30 hari" and then we did some exercises on Time. Then the big problem came: when we counted the month, one of the kids will always get different days from the others. When we got it 31 days, he would get 30 and vice versa. The kid then said to me: "Akak, betul la saye kire. 30." I then asked him to count it back. Only then I realized that he had a serious problem. A REALLY serious problem. His first two Tinggi and Rendah are obviously flat! No wonder he got different answer from others! I then made joke to the other kids, I said that they have to keep their body slim so they won't face the problem as what their friend had. (Note: the kid is a sihat type. Hehe. Chubby orang kate). And they all burst into laugh. Haha. Really funny.

In the classroom.

Then we had a break at 1230pm. After we were done with our lunch, the four of us from Robocon had to do the toughest task in this Mathronicamp, which was to take the robot out from the car. Believe me when I say that it took us more that half an hour just to bring out the robot! Doing the 'task' under the baking sun, I felt like my body was really baked. In an hour time I might turn into muffins. Cupcakes. Chocolate moist. Yummy. Erm you just see la the pictures that I curi-curi snap:

Nazrin and Shah. In the car: Jehan. Fuuh

The kids started to surround us as they found out that we were working with the robot. But people, you know what. We told them this: "Adik-adik, kalo robot ni tak boleh keluar, adik-adik tengok je lah robot ni dalam kete ni yek!" That was actually the bunyi of giving up. Hu

Jehan muke penat. She even blamed my group for making such a huge robot. Believe me Jehan, I never thought that my robot will ever ride a car, sitting beside both the driver and the back passenger seat! And people, do you get what I mean? The robot is LYING DOWN from front to the back seat!!!

And we have a secret to unveil here: we scratched so many parts of the car during this 'process'. But luckily it is Dr Naufal's car and he's the type that mind a little, but will just forget it minutes later. Hu. Lucky us. We then got back to class and started the teaching session. The session went normally, and we tried to finish all of the given modules in time so I selected certain questions for them to solve.

We stopped at 3, and the next slot is the Robot Demo. Oh. My time my session. We changed baju, and ready for the robot demo. The kids seemed so excited seeing the robot in front of them. I explained to the kids, teachers and also the facis bout the robot. How we fabricated it, what's this and what's that. And I was quite nervous demonstrating them the shooting mechanism of the robot. I said this to myself: "Ni kalo tak jatuh tin-tin tu, wat malu aku je. Robot punyela gempak, sekali rupenye demonstrator die gile looser." I then tried my best to give a best shot and voila, I made it! Hehe. I felt relieved when they gave me big applause. The kids seemed so proud of the robot's ability to shoot. We then give them some questions to answer and if they got it right, they would get the chance to try our robot. We even gave some snacks to them (sponsored by me. It wasn't much, but I know that it was a great feeling for the kids getting something when others don't. Ehe)

Nazrin conducting the game session.

The real view.

Then we had closing ceremony, and tangkap-tangkap gambar time!! Hehe

2 groups in 1, with the facis :)

I had so much fun with y'all guys! We are a great combination! :) And to Shah, you're too old to show your long-time-ago baby face.

And this is my very the very happening group! :D

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Going back to UTP..

Plaza tol Jelapang. The new one. You know the issue don't you?

Really new.

And finally, home! (with tonnes of work waiting. Sigh)

Express Update

It's been a while since my last update. I was tooo busy with this and that, got no time even to turn on my Winamp playlist. So here's the very SHORT update for y'all.

V5 Iftar, Sept 24

Dr Naufal had once suggested us the V5SR members to organize this event as for him, providing food for others is something mulia. Well it's not only for him, everyone does know this. So I challenged myself to try it though I have no experience in organizing such an event before. There were only 4 committees working for this Iftar, with 1 that comes and go (I would say this as VANISH, AND NEVER COME AGAIN. Sorry if you happen to read my blog, but you're treating us unfair)

Back to story. The THREE of us did everything from head to toe (ape ni?) from JB to Kangar. We did look for some donation in Taman Maju, but we somehow didn't collect the donation :) Nga3. Din, Shiha and me sometimes feel lazy-lazy to work on it but thanks to Dr Naufal and Mr Irwanshah who never gave up forcing us :) And Alhamdulillah, we managed to work on it till the end. Most of the V5 residents attended the Iftar and I was very happy to see that. We had ayam, daging, sayur-sayur, bubur lambuk, kuih-muih and sirap. Thanks to Allah, for making this Iftar running smoothly :)

And really forgot to cakap, I was the one who did the poster design :)

Robot on the Road : Sept 8&9

My current interest, robots. We had external exhibitor with us during this 2 days event, which was from Cytron. Cytron is our provider for Robocon, specializing in circuitry and electronics. We bought our motor drivers, circuit board, motors and other appliances from them. I was too excited seeing the new robots (to me) that they brought, complete with enhanced technologies. I owhed and wowed for many times during their robot demo; feels like requesting y'all one for my birthday present :D I really want that robot. That WALkINg RoBoT.

Here are the robots from Cytron. Intelligent and smart. The walking robot is the biggest one while the smallest is the most intelligent.

In front of the exhibition room - people got the chance to try my team's robot :)

We also had RoboRace :)

Interested? Come and join us! :)

COMING UPs...........

V5 Artfest

Currently working on the prizes and evaluation. We had more than 100 entries for both photo and short film. 4 days to go.

V5 Raya Fiesta

Currently working on the promotions. As the secretary, I have to arrange the schedule; who's gonna take in charge for the booth, who's to monitor. But sadly most of the times I had another important thing to do so I can't help them much with the promotion. Sorry for not being there, but deep inside I'm hoping that I'll get to know my other committees :)