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 :)

Halal, Haram dan Kita

Seorang rakan menyapaku di YM suatu malam.

Rakan: Fad, ko tau tak dalam majerin ko tu die ade gune minyak babi. Patotla sedap je ko punye majerin tu

Aku: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh? Mane tau?

Rakan: Dak-dak ni cakap.

Aku terkejut. Majerin tu majerin kegemeran aku. Sedap. Makanan yang separuh bersifat plastik itu telah menjadi pujaanku sejak sekian lama.



Kalo makan roti bakar dengan majerin tu, memang sedap kalo nak dibandingkan dengan majerin-majerin lain. Tau-tau je la kan, aku ni hantu roti. Roti bakar yang panas, terus disape majerin. Letak jem fevret, jem stroberi. Tapi aku kurang selesa mendengar kata-kata rakan aku tu. Takkan semudah tu aku nak percaya kata orang?

Gerakan Pertama
Lantas aku surf internet, mencari fakta tentang setiap kandungan majerin tu. E322, E471, E320 dan E330. E322 dan E471 merupakan emulsifier manakala E320 dan E330 merupakan sejenis antioxidant. Untuk pewarna pula, pengeluar majerin tersebut mengunakan E160a. Berikut merupakan hasil pencarian aku:

1) E320 dan E330 berasal dari sumber yang HALAL.
2) E322, E471 dan E160a tergolong dalam kumpulan SYUBHAH.

Memang agak meragukan, tapi aku terus ke http://www.halal.gov.my/
. Di situ aku terus memasukkan kod bar majerin tu, untuk check kehalalan makanan tu. Dan keputusannya:

Nombor Kod Bar Yang Dicari : 9556090030485 Nama Produk : Margerine 250g
Nama Syarikat : STANSON MARKETING
Tarikh Tamat Tempoh :15/12/2009
Status : Sijil Sah
No Kod Bar : 9556090030485

Keputusannya menyatakan bahawa majerin itu halal. Aku mengambil keputusan untuk percaya bahawa JAKIM, sebuah badan yang telah diamanahkan oleh kerajaan untuk menjaga hel ehwal agama Islam, telah menjalankan tanggungjawab mereka sebagai seorang Muslim dengan sempurna. Tiada pengkhianatan atau penyelewengan yang berlaku. Aku tiada kuasa untuk masuk kilang yang buat majerin ni untuk memastikan kandungan majerin itu berasal dari sumber yang halal. Apa yang aku boleh buat hanyalah percaya pada mereka yang memegang amanah. Aku tiada ilmu yang lengkap untuk memastikan itu semua tapi di sini ada hadith yang berkaitan dengan hal syubhah ni:

"Yang halal itu jelas dan yang haram itu jelas dan di antara kedua-duanya terdapat sesuatu yang syubhah yang tidak diketahui oleh kebanyakan manusia. Sesiapa yang menjauhi yang syubhah itu maka sesungguhnya ia telah memelihara agama dan maruahnya, manakala sesiapa yang cenderung terlibat dengan syubhah maka ia terlibat dengan melakukan perkara yang haram".

Buat mereka yang masih ragu-ragu tu, aku nasihatkan korang blaja la Kimia elok-elok. Lagi-lagi kalo korang amek Chemical Engineering. Aplikasikan ilmu yang korang dapat, selari dengan Islam. Semoga usaha kalian diberkati Allah :)

Busuk

Jumaat. Aku sibuk. Kurang tidur. Siapkan esemen. Berbuka di luar. Pulang 830pm. Berlari ke Sports Complex untuk tenis. Tenis tamat bergegas pula ke RoboLab pukul 1045opm. Pulang dari RoboLab 3am lebih. Pulang, letih. Tak mampu tidur sebab aku busuk. Nak mandi, takut air. Ape masalah ko Fad?

Entah. Aku terlalu busuk. Kemudian membasahi meja dan laptopku dengan kebusukan aku ni. Aku tahu mereka meronta-ronta meminta aku pergi jauh-jauh dari mereka. Tapi katilku dipenuhi baju kering yang belum dilipat.

Meja menjadi pilihan. Mata tidak mengantuk. Terus bersahur. Selepas subuh perlu ke RoboLab untuk cas bateri robot. Ada pertandingan petang nanti. Ya Allah, permudahkan la urusan Octopus hari ni. Kemenangan bukanlah perkara utama yang kupinta, tetapi tentacle-tentacle persaingan yang kumahu. Tentacle-tentacle yang bakal menaikkan semangat kumpulan lain untuk melawan kami.

Aku rindu sayang. Hampir 12 jam mengabaikan beliau. Sebab sebelum berbuka aku tertidur. Bukak-bukak mata terus keluar berbuka. Waktu makan, jangan haraplah tangan aku nak menaip fon. TomYam tu sangat enak. Waktu pergi tenis, aku tinggalkan fon. Pulang 3pagi, beliau sudah tidur.

Hm. Nanti waktu aku dah kerja aku akan jadi macam sekarang ni ke? Tak sempat untuk anta even 1 SMS untuk bertanya khabar. Aku pandang sekeliling bilik. Tersenyum. Hidup aku sebenarnya dikelilingi beliau. Mana-mana ada tanda kenangan.

Elmo.

Rebit.

Eeyore.

Mug.

Tabung yang sudah BERAT.

Kaktus yang asalnya cantik banyak cabang tapi akhirnya tinggal satu je cabangnya.

Ada perasaan 'I can't live without him' yang sangat kuat. Mimpi ketiadaannya membuatkan aku takut nak tidur esoknye. Takut mimpi sama berulang. Sakit ulu hati. Pedih amat.

Ya Rabbi, kenapa Engkau ciptakan perasaan sayang sebegini rupa sedangkan perasaan ini yang memandu kepada perkara yang Engkau benci? Wallahua'lam. Hanya Dia yang tahu. Aku perlu kuat dan sentiasa sedar siapa diri aku. Hamba yang diciptakan untuk menyembah Penciptanya. Berikan kami petunjukMu, Ya Allah. Permudahkan urusan kami dalam mendapatkan RedhaMu.

Aku mahu jadi lebih baik. Aku mahu kami jadi lebih baik dari sebelumnya. Sama-sama =)

Telah Kutinggalkan..

blog ini sekian lama. Sibuk. Alasan terbaik. Sungguh. Aku sibuk.

V5 Raya Fiesta.

V5 Iftar.

V5 Art Festival.

V5 Student Representative.

Semuanya V5. Takde bende lain ke Fad?

Ade.

Robot.

Esemen.

Test.

Hm. Semoga berjaya Fad.

Convofair : Aftermath

Morning. Reservoir rock and props class. Kawan 2 was on my right while Kawan1 on my left.

Perbualan #1
Fado : Takde mood nye. Still dalam mood Convofair lagi la..
Kawan 1 : Ko tau tak, aku spend RM300 dalam mase 4 hari je.
Fado : Mak ai! Ko buat ape?
Kawan 1 : Bayar raket tenis Rm100, eh bukan. 50 je, yang lain-lain tu kat Convofair la.

Perbualan #2
Kawan 2 : Nak tau tak, kite spend RM500 untuk ConvoFair..
Fado : Wow! Hebat gile!
Kawan 2 : 350 habis dekat kedai barang-barang motorsport tu, lagi 150 yang lain-lain tu la.
Fado : Ooo beli baju ape?
Kawan 2 : Kite beli untuk mak, ayah ngan adik kite..
Fado : Oh, patutla.. (Padanla, beli baju untuk family rupenye)

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Baru aku tau nape Petronas masukkan duit scholar kitorang 9hb and 21hb bulan ni.

Ini adalah untuk menghasilkan dua perbualan seperti yang dinyatakan di atas pada hari setelah tamatnya ConvoFair itu~

Fado pulak macam mane?

Hmm. Tak tau nak cakap ape.

Ape yang pasti, dalam mase 2 hari ConvoFair tu, aku pegi bank 2 kali jugak la~

Convofair : Day 2

WARNING : For those who have problems in reading long stories, I'm afraid that you will easily get tired when you read this post. It's a long story of Fado's day. A long journey of the day.

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Zai woke me up today.

"Fad Fad. Bangunla. Nak pegi kayak tak? Jomla. Jomla."

Hearing the word KAYAK, I simply jumped out of my bed.

Had shower after decided not to sebab Datin Zai mandi so I had to do what she did la. Heheh

Then tunggu Dato' Aizat datang menjemput kami.

As we reached the tasik, there was nobody there so we all pon decide to have breakfast at Taman Maju as Datin Fado requested to makan oti canai~

Waiting for the oti canai~

Oso waiting for the oti canai~

After having our breakfast, we ronda-ronda around Taman Maju to seek for ramuan-ramuan yang diperlukan untuk membuat dadih untuk keperluan bisnes Datin Zai. Kemudian kami pulang ke UTP, semangat untuk memulakan aktiviti berkayak.

The cannibals are going for fishing. Haha

The real view :)

Si Pemalas. Saya tak suka la berkawan dengan Si Pemalas~

4 sekawan were having a great time together. Datin Zai comel :)

After done with canoing, we fed the ikan-ikan there. Sangat seronok!

Trio was feeding the ikan, led by ikanriang. Heheh

Hey guys. You know what? I'm tired of typing every single word for this post because if I do, you won't read my blog till the end. So macam bese la kan, saye mahu letak gamba-gamba je, in sequence. Ok? Hehe

Then we went to the motorsports merchandise shop again. See la betapa gilanya rakan-rakan saya ni:


You'd better try it first! Try pakai SUME baju-baju mahal tu! :D





Bukan baju je yang kite kene try, but the simulator as well. Hehehehe







Overall, barang-barang yang saye beli adelah:

Untuk Syg, Kin, Amy dan jugak Pejul =)

Kemudian kami pergi makan. Duit saya habis di kedai tadi tu. Maka saya terpaksa meminjam duit. Uh uh

Datin Zai was very hungry~

Then we went back, had some rest, and continued our day with horse riding..

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Convofair : Day 1

Here it comes again. Convofair; the most awaited event of the year. This is the time where all the students would push their books aside and leave their pens uncapped, neglected. They would spend their times in the ConvoSquare, try and explore everything until their body shiver with tire; where, there's no such word TIRING or TIRE or even TIRED during this 3 days event. Same thing goes to me.

Saturday, Aug 22 :
Woke up late.
Update my Friendster, read the Geoscience book a bit and had shower.
Left the house for ConvoFair around 12, walking under the sun with Ima and Syima.
Didn't find anything interesting there but the sand art gerai.
I convinced Ima and Syima that doing sand art would probably cool us off.
And..

Seems like I really enjoyed the sand art cooling activity heh~

My half-way Doraemon sand art. Really nice isn't it? (^_^)

Syima was the first to finish her sand art. Hebat job! Heheh

And I was the second. Really really nice~

Ima the third. And also the last ;p

Next, blood donation.
I don't know why, but the medical officer told me that I was lack of blood and with that, I can't donate :(
My first and last donation was 7 months ago taw :(



Then I accompanied Ima la. Also took her picture while she was donating. Huhu~

I passed this. But not the other one :(

Really want to be in her place. Uh Uh

As Ima still had the energy to walk-walk lagi, we went here:


I was so excited going inside that 'thing', lagi-lagi bila orang yang jaga tu allowed me to cross the divider and took a closer look at the racing car sebab time tu orang tak ramai sangat. He he he he

They even suggested me to hug the tyre. And it was too obvious : I just can't.

Then we went to the motorsports merchandise shop, and it drove me crazy la. Really crazy. And there I bought 3 baju; 1 for me, 1 for Kin and another 1 for Pejul. Wanted to buy 1 for Amy, but I could not find the right size for her. Let's keep the things that I bought for them for another post, but this is what I bought for ME:

And how does it look like when a pretty lady wears it? Keh keh keh

Nice isn't it? I really like this baju :)

R-Play 2 : The Challenge

It's been a while since I last updated this blog as I was waiting for the R-Play 3 pictures from Awang. But the UTP server is always damn slow and I can't even download even a single simple document in my emails without clicking the 'Reload' button for hundred times.

It IS frustrating. I missed merepek and cium-cium my blog. Tapi takpe. I already have the pics ;) Thanx to NAJIB yang sangat-sangat sabar transfer kat aku SUME gambar malam lepas :)

We were given bout 3 weeks lebih sikit to fabricate 2 autonomous and 1 manual robot. Damn crazy. With lectures and other commitments, it sounds impossible to finish fabricating all robots in just 3 weeks lebih sikit. But with the courage that all of my group members have, we managed to finish the robot in time (though we once had Dr Naufal stay with us during the night just to make sure that our robot is working).

But that is what he is; he wants us to be the best. Hm. Back to story. For this R-Play, we have 4 groups with 12-14 members in each group. Half of the group will do the structure and mechanism of the robot while the rest will do the programming and so forth.

But, unluckily (luckily, I'd say), our programmers had a new challenge awaited them : they had to fabricate THEIR OWN SENSORS. It's not just challenging, it's a killing challenge. But my team mates never gave up on their sensors. Najib for instance, spent 2 days to have his sensor working. 2 days is too much for 3 weeks! His great efforts paid him a lot as we managed to have a well-working robot with his sensor :)

Here's the gamefield for the last R-Play 3.


Just to make my explanation brief and short, the manual robot has to shoot all of the cans on the table while the other 2 autonomous robots have to be in the gamefiled, collect all of the checkpoints and score more points by doing the assigned task, which is to place the yellow cube into the tower-with-bowl. Sebagai kesimpulannya, game ni berdasarkan sape cepat dia yang dapat! :)

During the fabricating period, here are some of the problems that my group had faced:
-The sensors weren't working well; which made our autonomous robot went out of track most of the times.
-The string that we used for the lifting mechanism broke EASILY.
-It's hard to aim for the targeted cans as our shooting mechanism uses the projectile motion. Do you get what I mean?

But did we overcome the problems successfully? Read the next post :)

R-Play 2 : The Clash of the Titans Begins

Nervous.

Who won't feel nervous for this big day?

Of course la all the robots won't kan. Har har har :)) Funny la you ni Fad!

Be serious. Back to story. For the preliminary round, our group won the first place (hooray!)

All 3 robots worked very very well and we scored big big points.

For the very big day of R-Play 3, aku malas nak cite panjang. Ape yang pasti, fo rthe final match, we beat our opponent 47-0. Lain-lain cite, korang tengok gambar je lah ok?

From left : Awang (not a robot), Autonomous B with gripping and lifting mechanism, and Autonomous A with sayap mechanism at starting zone.

This is the manual robot. I worked on it :)

This is a part of our manual robot. It has a raga to place the ball :)

This is the controller (green) for the manual robot. Believe it or not, we fabricate it ourselves. I did the cutting for the casing. I made the hole for the buttons :) And this is really a unique design for a controller :) Ever seen this in the market? ;)

This was when our Autonomous B (the one with lifting and gripping mechanism) succeeded to place the yellow cube into the pot :) See, everybody was clapping :)

Right after being announced as the first prize winner :)

Bawak robot hirup udara segar kat luar lab after match. Diorang tak pernah jalan-jalan kat luar lab so that day was their pay day. Hehe :)

Feels like going crazy-crazy after 3 weeks of loads of works :)

Bitting nails.

A bad habit of mine?

No.

Then what is it?

Ok I'll give you a clue.

The complete statement of the title of this post is :

Frustrated. Bitting nails.

Got it?

Sure you got it.

What's the story Fad?

Hmm.

Hmm.

I had to take over the Robocon booth as I was in charge for it. After 'Asr prayer, I got ready la kan. Then my tudung buat hal. Senget. I never mind of how senget my tudung was. As long as it's not too obvious la kan. I already walk senget-senget so I don't want people see my tudung senget-senget jugak la kan. After done with my tudung, I walked quickly to the Robocon booth. As I reached the booth, a Robocon friend told me :

"Kitorang baru bergambar dengan Tun."

Shit. Damn u tudung.

Aku buat muke cool.

"O yeke. Da lame ke die bla?"

Aku control muke cool.

Buat muke tak kesah tak sempat bergambar dengan Tun.

"Tak la. Baru sangat-sangat"

I held the end of my tudung kuat-kuat.

Shit. Damn u tudung.



I don't know how to explain this further, along with the frustration inside. When I told Abah bout the story, he 'Owwwwwhhhh'ed a lot. He gave me the long one. I guess he's feeling my frustration as well. Aku anak Abah so we have the same feeling la kan?

Aku melompat-lompat waktu bercerita kat Abah tadi. I asked him to stop the 'Owwwhhhh ruginye'. I hit the floor, hoping that the frustration would slowly go. But it never does.

Can somebody bring me to him?
























I'm dying to see him smiling to me. Give me the sweetest smile that won't melt my heart, but give me a courage to live in this DIRTY earth. Messed earth with DIRTY stories in politics.