Just finished my current semester in engineering, currently on study leave but you can call that a holiday. So far so good, Ive got the feeling that i had made the right decision choosing Engineering. Lots of stuff learned but its just that I feel that I haven’t get to know anyone new at all recently. Somehow I always end up with the same group of friends, and they’re mostly guys. Maybe I was always like that and only since leaving secondary school did I got to realize that school was the best place to make friendships. I mean your forced to sit next to someone and it seems that studies got most of my attention in university, maybe I’m just addicted to engineering.

A funny thing was that I remembered the teacher started mixing boys and girls to sit next to each other during my primary school, somehow we hated it that time. However, In secondary school it was the other way round boys and girls were separated and we hated that too. Hey, why am I thinking bout all this I don’t even have anyone to miss.

Picture taken at SS19, Persiaran Tujuan, Subang Jaya on the 3rd of April. The cause of the jam still remains a mystery to me.

You know your screwed when you see this. It took me an hour to reach Monash instead of the usual 15 minutes.

So far I have been late twice, one was because I took 30 minutes to find a parking spot and one more because of this traffic jam.

Days like this makes me wanna get the Suzuki Hayabusa.

Recent Happenings

MY mid semester test just ended and you also know you’re screwed when you can’t answer any of the only 3 questions in your Dynamics paper

Last Friday during my Dynamics lecture the PA system went:

“Attention, this is an emergency please evacuate immediately. This is not a drill”

Since none of us feels that there was an urgent need to evacuate most of us took our own sweet time to get out. My lecturer even said: Hey, pass me the attendance sheet before leaving.

After evacuating to the field I finally figured out why Monash’s gigantic parking lot gets full sometimes.If you’ve even been to Giant USJ 1 old parking lot, Monash parking lot is bigger than that.

I cant potray the amount of people from the place that I was standing, this is only a quarter and many of my friends studying business in Monash are off on Fridays.

During normal days it seems that Monash does not have many students at all, maybe Monash is just big.

And yes, this was just a drill or else I might have an extra long holiday and maybe transfer all my classes to Australia.

I have been enrolled in the school of engineering in Monash University for a few weeks. So far I am still alive although Im not feeling that well this week, Im having a terrible sore throat. I Slept through a few classes and missed a few already =(

Anyway, the Monash University Student Association(MUSA) are pretty cool(and hot), they organized an orientation bash at Port Dickson for 150 students for free. I though I was gonna have a blast getting bashed up, or raped or whatever but I ended up spending a whole day competition in crappy telematches like who can create the best flag, transferring water using a sponge(this took us forever), transferring ping pong balls from a bucket of flour to somewhere else, half-blinded cartwheel race, burying competition. The only fun group activity that they organized was the tug of war, unfortunately I am not big and strong enough for that and so were most members of my group.

The activities were boring, but at least I made some new friends thanks to being in a group. While the organizers were busy counting the scores of groups for the boring activities, me and my friends went on a banana boat ride

Somehow, I got sand, flour, ping pong balls, soap and loads of salt water that day in my mouth that day.

This first few weeks werent as hard as expected physics and engineering dynamics are very repetitive. Ive learnt newtons 2nd law many times, in secondary school, MUFY, and im being thaught the same thing in engineering physics and dynamics.

Anyway, physics labarotory projects are all about eggs. My first project was to construct a vehicle powered by a standard rubber band to transport an egg to the furthest displacement. There were a few rules that made getting a large displacement hard such as no rotation objects and lubricant were allowed.

Anyway, my vehicle traveled 6.8m during the measuring session. Actually it had the potential to get to at least 8m but my whole group was traumatized by the disaster of the first run. On the first run, our vehicle went about 15 meters but without an egg, the egg flew off and cracked. =(

Sorry for the lack of pictures, not only am I lacking any interesting pictures Im having trouble uploading them

I participated and I was put into team yellow, engineering Alpha(some schools were split into 2 as there were too many students) and we had a mascot who lived in a pineapple under the sea, Spongebob. All the games werent thoose athletic kind.There was no 100 meters sprinting or high jumping but there were dodgeball, frisbee, spongerace, blind football, marble searching, tug of war, water balloons instead.

Spongebob getting shot.

I was supposed to join frisbee and dodgeball but somehow frisbee was full. The dodgeball game was sad, my team lost after less than 1 minute. I tried to jump over a ball thrown at me but the ball bounced on the floor and touched me and I was out, how unfair.

Qouted from http://www.dodgeballusa.com/rules.html

THE GAME

The object of the game is to eliminate all opposing players by getting them “OUT”. This may be done by:

1. Hitting an opposing player with a LIVE thrown ball below the shoulders.

2. Catching a LIVE ball thrown by your opponent before it touches the ground.

Definition: LIVE: A ball that has been thrown and has not touched anything, including the floor/ground, another ball, another player, official or other item outside of the playing field (wall, ceiling, etc)

Anyway, my team didn’t win but at least we won the best mascot.

Suprisingly I got sunburned when I got home and looked like a tomato. The weather diddn’t felt that hot during the games as it was pretty cloudy or maybe I diddn’t feel the heat and was just distracted by hotness from other sources.

Monash classes starts on tomorrow, Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Speedtest to US servers, my connection to Japan and China is also affected

I don’t know whats happening but many other users have the same problem and tm net hasnt even admitted that there is a problem. No facebook and internet radio for now =(

Looking back, this is one of my worst holiday. December was fun but then from January everything went dull. There was once where I didn’t left house to have fun for a week unless you count cycling alone along some lonely road as fun.

Whats worse is that I got sick during Chinese New Year, the most important time to stay healthy because its a major source of my money. I got a terrible sorethroat and then a really bad cough which made me felt terrible for 2 weeks. I didn’t manage to sleep on some nights due my terrible cough. I estimate a loss of RM200 in CNY earnings and loads of fun with friends and family due to me missing in action during that period.

Somehow I missed a lot of exercise during this holiday, last week I went to MPSJ and could only do 2 full laps of jogging even with inspiration running in front(cute girls).

Since I was bored of rotting at home, sleeping, eating then watching movies I bought a new computer so that I could play games. That worsened my rotting problem but at least I was rotting and having fun.

Anyway I better put my last week of holiday to good use. I still don’t how I am going to Monash as my mum, bro and father needs to use their cars and I don’t have one.

Even though my mum can fetch me to and fro Uni I prefer to drive myself as I dont like to rely on others. Sometimes I have to wait for them or sometimes something fun or important happens and I have to skip it because they are on their way. Anyway with a car I don’t need to do that 15 minute walk in the heat to get to Sunway Pyramid.

Off to rot for one more week =) and sorry for not updating for a long time, now that Uni is stopping me from rotting I guess Ill continue updating regularly.

On the way out of the parking lot while going up the next level(on the ramp with a sharp turning) there was this scraping noise and I realized that I scraped the damn wall.

Stopped for a while to check the damage, there was no dent but there was a lot of scratches.

On the way back, I didn’t know why but I didn’t see the stupid poles that MPSJ put in the middle of the lane. Luckily I didn’t hit it but It sure scared the shit out of me.

The damage. Still deciding whether to respray but will try polishing 1st.

*will be updated with more pictures later*

11th October 2008

Called USJ driving to register

12th October 2008

Took my undang talk

The driving school brought me to a place called Surfine Hitech somewhere in Damansara for the talk. The place was quite run down and it feels as if the place is gonna fall apart.

I had to pay RM 200 for the talk and RM 10 for a mykad like card.

There was a choice of English and Malay for the talk. I choose the English talk and I got ripped off as the speaker’s English was retarded and all he talked about was road signs. His jokes weren’t lame, the only thing I was laughing at was the way he spoke.

Yes I did wanted to sleep but the table was on the chair so it wasn’t comfortable at all to sleep on the tiny little table provided.

After the talk, I met someone who went to the Malay talk and he said that the talk was great. I should have taken that, after all I haven’t communicated in Malay for a long time. I was stuttering while talking to a Malay guy.

25th October 2008

Went for the undang test,  which was conducted using computers somewhere in ss15 and I passed.

I also got my picture taken for my license.

Somehow I might have accidentally talked during the photo shoot and my photo looks retarded. I didn’t know until they printed out my pictures. Anyway, its just my driving license, the more retarded the better.

9th Nov 2008

Took my pre-L course 6 hours at Surfine Hitech. Cost me another RM 200

Seriously boring. They talked about what you must do on the road and how to pass the exam. At least its much more useful and informative than the undang talk.

2nd December 2008

1st on the road lesson and I paid another RM 500 to the driving school. The reason my lessons started so late was because there was some problems with getting my L licence. You need the L licence to learn driving with your instructor and you only can take the driving test 1 month after getting the L licence.

Not that bad, driving was a breeze. Just need to press the pedals and control that wheel in front of me.

Just that at one time I stalled at a traffic light. The light went from red to green and then to red again. I feel sorry for making the aunty behind me wait.

One more thing is that I got bullied on the highway. Cars overtaking me using the emergency lane on the left and trying to kiss my ass.  And there was this time where a lorry tried to flatten me, the very long one around 30 feet long.

9th December 2009

Its 9.56 AM and i am supposed to be driving right now. Somehow the instructor ffked me(I think ffk means didn’t turn up).

Ive got scammed, I slept late last night and I woke up early for nothing and thank god Ive got nothing to do at 11.

Maybe its just my face. I get scammed all the time

23rd December 2008

After a few more lessons I went for the trial test, didn’t drive so well but its only a trial. The trial test is necessary for you to take the proper test. My instructor asked whether I wanted to take a guarantee pass package for RM 200 for my driving test(I don’t know what happens to the money, maybe the instructor will pray for me by giving the RM 200 to someone). I gave it some thought and somehow I rejected it because I wanted to save some money and Ive always liked hard mode.

31st December 2008

After taking 10 hours of lessons, Today is my driving test.

There are two tests we need to pass to get our license.

The on the road test,  and the circuit(slope, parking and 3 point turn test).

For the on the road test, we need to drive the instructor around a course on public roads with traffic.

The route

For the circuit, we need to pass three different tests, slope, parking and the 3 point turn.

For the slope, we need to stop the car on a line and then move forward without rolling back. Using the handbrake its a piece of cake.

For the parking test we need to park the car  in the box and get it out. The poles makes parking very easy. All I needed to do was folow what my instructor thaught me. Stop beside the pole, count 7 poles, reverse till the right rear wheel touches the line, turn the steering fully to the right and reverse until the end and then move turn the steering to the left and move forward. Its very easy and getting out is even easier.

Lastly is the 3 point turn which only lets us make 3 movements with the car to U turn the car out of a dead end. I Just need to becareful not to stall or stop the car too early.

My driving school came and pick me up at 7 am. The test starts at 8 am and it takes place somewhere in Shah Alam. I was extremely nervous the whole morning because I talked with a few persons the night before and all of them said to me that passing is impossible without praying to someone.

Each candidate is given a number and they are we are made to wait until we are randomly chosen for the test.

After around one and a half hours of waiting, my number got called for the on the road test.

MY nervousness which slowly disappeared during the waiting time suddenly came back. Luckily i still remembered to do all the necessary things before moving off. Adjusting the seats, mirrors, wearing the seat belt, checking the signal lights and wiper.

Only after getting out of the center and getting on the main road everything went well. I guess im lucky because every time I reached a roundabout it was clear, all four roundabouts and all the traffic lights were green. Well one turned yellow but I still went through as I can’t stop in time. Since nothing bad and terrible happened and nobody or nothing got hurt, I passed =)

Ive got 18 marks out of 20, the passing mark is 16. I lost marks for using my signal lights wrongly and not using the appropriate gear. I might have remembered using the wrong gear but I have no idea when I misused my signal lights. Anyway I don’t think this will matter, some Malaysians don’t use their signal lights anyway.

After that I waited another long hour until it was my turn to take on the circuit. Somehow I simply jumped in a car only to realize that its a very old kancil, the one without a RPM meter. The only way to know the RPM is by listening to the sound. Anyway, I passed

Finally got back home at 1pm after waiting for the results slip and other stuff. Now I need to wait about a week for my licence so that I can drive on the roads.

The cost

The total cost was:

200- undang talk and test

10 -book

10-Useless red smart card

13- L picture

200- pre L talk and L license

500- Driving lessons and driving exam

200-Praying money(didn’t take)

80-P license for 2 years

Total for me was RM 1013

By the way, I don’t like my driving school so don’t ask me for their number. Now I wonder how long will it take them to get my license.

• Im gonna get my driving license in a week
• Im going to Monash University to study engineering  this year
• Im turning 18 and Ill get to enjoy all the happiness that comes with it

Sorry about the lateness of this post, Ive spent the 1st day of near year hibernating.