2nd Half Time-----Start!

Penatnya dalam seminggu ni. Walaupun cuti semester tapi susah juga nak cari masa sendiri. Kerja banyak tapi sikit je sempat buat. Selebihnya, main-main, tidur, baca komik dan banyak lagilah! (ada pulak masa?)

Selain tu aku jadi cikgu free untuk adik aku yang akan mengambil PMR hujung tahun ni.

Sedar tak sedar, separuh masa kedua semester aku bakal bermula! Esok aku akan kembali ke Penang dengan bas. Kesibukan akan kembali menjengah diri aku. Antaranya:

• Final Year Project yang dah lama aku tinggal. Tak tahu macam mana nak mula balik.
• Projek bisnes belut ikan pelik kami yang aku sendiri tak tahu kat mana nak rujuk praktikal penternakan dia.
• Kelas tuisyen yang aku mengajar anak-anak kenalan aku UPSR dan PMR (ini untuk pendapatan sampingan).
• Presentation
  
• Test-test yang berkenaan.
• Nota-nota yang aku dikehendaki copy kan untuk budak-budak.
• Lab report - penat-penat perah otak, orang copy aje.

Penat rupanya jadi student ni, tapi kalau kerja lagi penat, kan?

Semester ni adalah semester terakhir untuk aku buktikan kemampuan sebenar aku selepas 5 semester yang lalu, aku lebih banyak bermain.

H E C T I C!

Tomorrow January 23^rd will be my last day for lecture as next week is our mid-semester break. I feel so happy because I get to see my beloved family and my girl back! And this will be my last time to travel by bus to KL. I decided to travel by train after the fare rose.

Actually, I feel more comfortable to travel by train as it is CHEAPER by 50% than the bus! That is my only point huhu. I happened to ride a bus because the train's ticket had sold out! Dulu, bas habis dulu, sekarang, terbalik.

Well, it is cheaper, of course.. What do you think?

Okay, during the break, the lecturers have set their own way for me to enjoy my break. Ouch.. Assignments.. Online Quizzes.. Lab reports.. Progress report.. and lastly, from Che’ Bad, business plan of the ikan pelik...I mean, belut. The break will not be a break for me. . . . . .

Time for electronics projects!

For your information, I am a final year student of Electrical Electronics Diploma program.

hat means, i have a looooott of work and task to be done. One of them is, electrical/electronics final year project (FYP). The project group consists of two, and my lab partner is a girl. My partner, whose name is Raihan and me, went to buy the project component this morning alongside Faid and Sanusi. We depart at 10.30 and arrives 30 minutes later (waiting for Sanusi took 10 minutes!).

Upon arriving, the list of the components needed was given to the shop assistant. But, the fact that most of us didn’t know is, the price of each component is not that expensive. But the things that raise the price are the ICs (Integrated circuits). Our project uses two ICs. One is a common 8 pin monolithic 555 timer (this one is cheaper, around 90 cents) and the other one is, 18 pins PIC 16F84 (programmable IC). This one is quite expensive, RM 15.00, unprogrammed.

We have to reprogramme it using Microprocessor devices that we have learn earlier. This may be tiresome as I am not programming type.. Raihan, will you do this for me? Huhu..

Wait, if you think that the 18 pinners is expensive, wait till you hear this. Our LCD display, is the most expensive of them all. RM 45.00. Damn. That is 62% of the overall price of RM 73.00! No wonder if your laptop’s LCD monitor broke down, you have to pay around RM 1700 to get it fixed. But actually, the price is not that high, depends on who do you seek help to fix it. (komisen maa!)

Plus, we did a simple circuit, and I personally think that our project is way way simpler than some of our friend with bigger brain. Their project may cost up to RM1500 per unit.

I am going pass that.....No money!

Limau + Pokok Limau?

This project burns a hole to my pocket! Well, at least the tauke gave us 4 limau mandarin as the Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Thank you very much!